Where does “tenderloin” come from?
Tenderloin derives from English tender and English loin, with tender ultimately tracing through Latin tendere, meaning to stretch or extend.
tenderloin (English): The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially...
Definitions
- The tenderest part of a loin of meat, especially...
Ancestry of “tenderloin”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | tender | Sensitive or painful to the touch; Easily bruised... |
| 2 | English | tend | To make a tender of; to offer or tender; To be... |
| 3 | Middle English | tenden | — |
| 4 | Middle English | attenden | to attend |
| 5 | Old French | atendre | to wait |
| 6 | Latin | attendō | — |
| 7 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 8 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 9 | Latin | în | — |
| 10 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |