Where does “tendere” come from?

tendere (Latin) comes from Proto-Indo-European tend-, from Proto-Indo-European temh₂- — to stretch, string; to cut.

tendere (Latin): second-person singular future passive indicative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative...

Ancestry of “tendere”, step by step

tendere traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European tend-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeantend-to stretch, to extend; to split, cut off
2Proto-Indo-Europeantemh₂-to stretch, string; to cut

via Proto-Italic tendō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italictendōto stretch
2Proto-Indo-Europeanten-to stretch, to extend

Words derived from “tendere”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European temh₂- →