Where does “tenta” come from?
tenta (Vulgar Latin) comes from Latin tentus, from Latin teneō, from Proto-Italic tenēō, from Proto-Indo-European ten- — to stretch, to extend.
tenta (Vulgar Latin): tent; second-person singular present active...
Definitions
- tent; second-person singular present active...
Ancestry of “tenta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | tentus | stretched; stretched out; extended; distended;... |
| 2 | Latin | teneō | — |
| 3 | Proto-Italic | tenēō | to hold |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ten- | to stretch, to extend |
Words derived from “tenta”