Where does “tenure” come from?
tenure (Old French) comes from Latin tenitura, from Latin tentus, from Latin teneō, from Proto-Italic tenēō, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.
tenure (Old French): tenure; holding ; estate; tenure, right of...
Definitions
- tenure; holding ; estate; tenure, right of...
Ancestry of “tenure”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | tenitura | — |
| 2 | Latin | tentus | stretched; stretched out; extended; distended;... |
| 3 | Latin | teneō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | tenēō | to hold |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
Words derived from “tenure”