teneso

Spanish

Chemical element
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Etymology

Coined by consensus in 2017. Partial calque of English tennessine, following the pattern of the halogens cloro (“chlorine”), yodo (“iodine”), bromo (“bromine”) and astato (“astatine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈneso/ [t̪eˈne.so]
• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: te‧ne‧so

Noun

teneso m (uncountable)

1. (chemistry) tennessine

   Synonym: (deprecated) ununseptio

Further reading

• “teneso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10