Where does “tenente” come from?
tenente (Italian) comes from Latin tenens, from Latin teneō, from Proto-Italic tenēō, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.
tenente (Italian): tenacious; resistant; present participle of...
Definitions
- tenacious; resistant; present participle of...
Ancestry of “tenente”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | tenens | holding, having; restraining; knowing, grasping,... |
| 2 | Latin | teneō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | tenēō | to hold |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
Words derived from “tenente”