| 释义 | | ten- To stretch.
 Derivatives include tendon, pretend, hypotenuse, tenement, tenor, entertain, lieutenant, and tone.
 [Pokorny 1. ten‑ 1065.]Derivatives with the basic meaning. Suffixed form *ten-do‑. tend1, tender2, tendu2, tense1, tent1; attend, contend, detent, distend, extend, intend, ostensible, pretend, subtend, from Latin tendere, to stretch, extend;portend, from Latin portendere, "to stretch out before"  (por‑, variant of pro‑, before; see per1), a technical term in augury, "to indicate, presage, foretell.".
Suffixed form *ten-yo‑.  tenesmus; anatase, bronchiectasis, catatonia, entasis, epitasis, hypotenuse, neoteny, paratenic host, peritoneum, protasis, syntonic, telangiectasia, from Greek teinein, to stretch, with o-grade form ton‑ and zero-grade noun tasis (< *tn̥-ti‑), a stretching, tension, intensity.Reduplicated zero-grade form *te-tn̥-o‑.  tetanus, from Greek tetanos, stiff, rigid.Suffixed full-grade form *ten-tro‑. tantra, from Sanskrit tantram, loom;sitar, from Persian tār, string.
Basic form (with stative suffix) *ten-ē‑.  tenable, tenacious, tenaculum, tenant, tenement, tenet, tenon, tenor, tenure, tenuto; abstain, contain, continue, detain, entertain, lieutenant, maintain, obtain, pertain, pertinacious, rein, retain, retinaculum, retinue, sustain, from Latin tenēre, to hold, keep, maintain (< "to cause to endure or continue, hold on to").Extended form *ten-s‑. Suffixed zero-grade form *tn̥s-elo‑.  tussah, from Sanskrit tasaram, shuttle.
Derivatives meaning "stretched," hence "thin." Suffixed zero-grade form *tn̥-u‑.  thin, from Old English thynne, thin, from Germanic *thunniz, from *thunw‑.Suffixed full-grade form *ten-u‑.  tenuous; attenuate, extenuate, from Latin tenuis, thin, rare, fine.Suffixed full-grade form *ten-ero‑.  tender1, tendril; intenerate, from Latin tener, tender, delicate.
Derivatives meaning "something stretched or capable of being stretched, a string." Suffixed form *ten-ōn‑.  tendon, teno-, from Greek tenōn, tendon.Suffixed o-grade form *ton-o‑.  tone; baritone, tonoplast, from Greek tonos, string, hence sound, pitch.Suffixed zero-grade form *tn̥-yā‑.  taenia; polytene, from Greek tainiā, band, ribbon.
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