tensus

Latin

Alternative forms

• tentus

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tensos. Perfect passive participle form of tendō (“to stretch, to extend”), a later, analogical form of tentus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈten.sus/, [ˈt̪ẽːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈten.sus/, [ˈt̪ɛnsus]

Participle

tēnsus (feminine tēnsa, neuter tēnsum); first/second-declension participle

1. Stretched, stretched out, extended, distended.

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	tēnsus	tēnsa	tēnsum		tēnsī	tēnsae	tēnsa
Genitive	tēnsī	tēnsae	tēnsī		tēnsōrum	tēnsārum	tēnsōrum
Dative	tēnsō		tēnsō		tēnsīs
Accusative	tēnsum	tēnsam	tēnsum		tēnsōs	tēnsās	tēnsa
Ablative	tēnsō	tēnsā	tēnsō		tēnsīs
Vocative	tēnse	tēnsa	tēnsum		tēnsī	tēnsae	tēnsa

Derived terms

• tēnsiō

Descendants

Descendants of tensus

• Aromanian: timsu, tes
• Catalan: tes, → tens
• → English: tense
• Galician: teso, → tenso, testo (from *tensĭtus)
• Italian: teso, → tenso
• Portuguese: teso, → tenso
• Romanian: tins
• Sardinian: attesu, tesu
• Sicilian: tisu
• Old Spanish: teso
  • Spanish: tieso, → tenso

References

• “tensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tensus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tensus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 206