Where does “tendentious” come from?
Tendentious comes from English -ous combined with English tendency, which derives from Latin tendiōsus, the adjective form of Latin teneo meaning "to hold," with the suffix -ia forming the noun tendency.
tendentious (English): Having a tendency; written or spoken with a...
Definitions
- Having a tendency; written or spoken with a...
Ancestry of “tendentious”, step by step
tendentious traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German tendenziös
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | tendenziös | tendentious; biased |
| 2 | French | tendancieux | tendentious |
| 3 | French | tendance | tendency, propensity |
| 4 | French | -ance | ance; forms abstract nouns |
| 5 | Old French | -ance | ance (suffix used to form nouns) |
| 6 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 7 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |