tenuta

See also: Tenuta and tenutą

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teˈnu.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: te‧nù‧ta

Etymology 1

From tenere +‎ -uta.

Noun

tenuta f (plural tenute)

1. capacity
2. uniform
3. manor (estate)
4. attire

Derived terms

• a tenuta d'aria (“airtight”)
• tenuta di strada (“roadholding”)

Etymology 2

Participle

tenuta f sg

1. feminine singular of tenuto

Anagrams

• untate

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tenuta. First attested in the 1656-1688.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈnu.ta/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /tɛˈnu.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: te‧nu‧ta

Noun

tenuta f

1. (literary, property law) Synonym of czynsz dzierżawczy (“feu duty, ground rent”)
2. (historical) lease of royal or princely estates

Declension

Declension of tenuta

	singular	plural
nominative	tenuta	tenuty
genitive	tenuty	tenut
dative	tenucie	tenutom
accusative	tenutę	tenuty
instrumental	tenutą	tenutami
locative	tenucie	tenutach
vocative	tenuto	tenuty

Related terms

nouns

• tenutariusz
• tenutarz
• tenutor

 

Further reading

• tenuta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tenuta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “tenuta”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna