Where does “tenuta” come from?

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

tenuta (Polish): lease of royal or princely estates

Definitions

  1. lease of royal or princely estates

Ancestry of “tenuta”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiantenutacapacity
2Italiantenereto hold; to keep; to hold up; to sustain
3Latinteneōto hold, have; to grasp
4Proto-Italictenēōto hold
5Proto-Indo-Europeanten-to stretch, to extend
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