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): [ˈtẽː.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtɛn.sus] === Participle === tēnsus (feminine tēnsa, neuter tēnsum); first/second-declension participle Stretched, stretched out, extended, distended. ==== Inflection ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== tēnsiō ==== Descendants ==== === 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