τένων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”); related to τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /té.nɔːn/ → /ˈte.non/ → /ˈte.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /té.nɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈte.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈte.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈte.non/

Noun

τένων • (ténōn) m (genitive τένοντος); third declension

1. tendon, sinew

Declension

Third declension of ὁ τένων; τοῦ τένοντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τένων ho ténōn	τὼ τένοντε tṑ ténonte	οἱ τένοντες hoi ténontes
Genitive	τοῦ τένοντος toû ténontos	τοῖν τενόντοιν toîn tenóntoin	τῶν τενόντων tôn tenóntōn
Dative	τῷ τένοντῐ tôi ténonti	τοῖν τενόντοιν toîn tenóntoin	τοῖς τένουσῐ / τένουσῐν toîs ténousi(n)
Accusative	τὸν τένοντᾰ tòn ténonta	τὼ τένοντε tṑ ténonte	τοὺς τένοντᾰς toùs ténontas
Vocative	τένον ténon	τένοντε ténonte	τένοντες ténontes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: τένοντας (ténontas)
• → Latin: tenōn
  • → Middle English: thenoun
• → Medieval Latin: tendō
  • → English: tendon
  • French: tendon
    • → Turkish: tendon

Further reading

• “τένων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• τένων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “τένων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ankle idem, page 30.
  • muscle idem, page 547.
  • sinew idem, page 777.
  • tendon idem, page 862.