Where does “tenuta” come from?

tenuta (Italian) comes from Italian tenere, from Latin teneō, from Proto-Italic tenēō, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.

tenuta (Italian): capacity

Definitions

  1. capacity

Ancestry of “tenuta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantenereto hold; to keep; to hold up; to sustain
2Latinteneōto hold, have; to grasp
3Proto-Italictenēōto hold
4Proto-Indo-Europeanten-to stretch, to extend

Words derived from “tenuta”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ten- →