tendon

tendon

See also: tendón

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.dən/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

tendon (plural tendons)

1. (anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 78:

     I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.

   Synonym: sinew

2. (biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.
3. (construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

Derived terms

• tendonitis
• Achilles’ tendon

Translations

band of fibrous tissue

Albanian: dell (sq) m, damar (sq) m, tendin m Arabic: وَتَر‎ (ar) m (watar) Armenian: ջիլ (hy) (ǰil) Azerbaijani: vətər Belarusian: сухажы́лле n (suxažýllje) Bulgarian: сухожи́лие (bg) n (suhožílie) Burmese: အရွတ် (my) (a.rwat) Catalan: tendó (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 肌腱 (zh) (jījiàn), 腱 (zh) (jiàn) Czech: šlacha (cs) f Danish: sene c Dutch: pees (nl) c Esperanto: tendeno Estonian: kõõlus (et) Even: хум (hum) Finnish: jänne (fi) French: tendon (fr) m Galician: balastrón m, balistrón m, fío (gl) m, liña (gl) f, bestra f Georgian: მყესი (mq̇esi) German: Sehne (de) f Greek: τένοντας (el) m (ténontas) Ancient: τένων m (ténōn) Haitian Creole: tandon Hebrew: גִיד‎ (he) m (gid) Hindi: स्नायु (hi) f (snāyu), नस (hi) f (nas) Hungarian: ín (hu), ínszalag (hu) Icelandic: sin (is) f Indonesian: tendon (id), urat (id) Interlingua: tendine, tendon Irish: teannán Italian: tendine (it) m Japanese: 腱 (ja) (けん, ken), 筋 (ja) (すじ, suji) Kapampangan: litad Kazakh: сіңір (sıñır), тарамыс (taramys) Khmer: សរសៃពួរ (sɑɑ say puə), សរសៃ (km) (sɑɑ say) Korean: 심줄 (simjul), 힘줄 (ko) (himjul), 건(腱) (ko) (geon) Kriol: jinuj Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: jê (ku) Kyrgyz: сиңир (ky) (siŋir), тарамыш (ky) (taramış) Lao: ນະຫາລຸ (na hā lu), ເອັນ (ʼen), ເສັ້ນເອັນ (sen ʼen) Latvian: cīpsla f, dzīsla f Lithuanian: sausgyslė f Low German: Seen f Luxembourgish: Fies f Macedonian: тети́ва f (tetíva) Malay: tendon Manchu: ᠰᡠᠪᡝ (sube) Maori: iohere Middle English: synwe Mongolian: Cyrillic: шөрмөс (mn) (šörmös), шандас (mn) (šandas) Munsee: wchéht Nanai: сумул Norwegian: Bokmål: sene (no) m or f Nynorsk: sene f, sen f Old English: sinu f Ossetian: нуар (nwar) Persian: تاندون‎ (tândon), پی‎ (fa) (pay) Polish: ścięgno (pl) n Portuguese: tendão (pt) m Quechua: bunelan Romanian: tendon (ro) n, ligament (ro) n, vână (ro) f (popular) Russian: сухожи́лие (ru) n (suxožílije), жи́ла (ru) f (žíla) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тѐтива f Roman: tètiva (sh) f Slovak: šľacha f Slovene: tetiva f, kita (sl) f Spanish: tendón (es) m Swedish: sena (sv) c Tagalog: litid Tajik: раг (rag), пай (pay) Tamil: தசைநாண் (tacaināṇ) Telugu: స్నాయువు (te) (snāyuvu) Thai: ลวดกำ (lûat gam), สายตัว (săai dtua), เอ็นกล้ามเนื้อ, แถบเอ็น (tɛ̀ɛp-en), เอ็น (th) (en), เส้นเอ็น (th) (sêen-en) Tibetan: རྒྱུད་པ (rgyud pa) Tocharian B: ṣñor Turkish: kiriş (tr), tendon (tr) Turkmen: (please verify) tendon Ukrainian: сухожи́лля (uk) n (suxožýllja) Uyghur: سىڭىر‎‎ (si'ngir‎) Uzbek: pay (uz), chandir (uz) Vietnamese: gân (vi) (腱) Volapük: kordül Westrobothnian: sen f Yakut: иҥиир (iŋiir) Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• ligament

References

• “tendon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “tendon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

Anagrams

• Denton

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈten.don/

Noun

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

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French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/

• Audio (CAN)

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

tendon m (plural tendons)

1. tendon

Derived terms

• tendon d'Achille

Related terms

• tendineux
• tendinite

Descendants

• → Romanian: tendon
• →? Turkish: tendon

Further reading

• “tendon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Japanese

Romanization

tendon

1. Rōmaji transcription of てんどん

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tenˈdon/

Noun

tendon n (plural tendoane)

1. (anatomy) tendon

Declension

Declension of tendon

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tendon	tendonul	(niște) tendoane	tendoanele
genitive/dative	(unui) tendon	tendonului	(unor) tendoane	tendoanelor
vocative	tendonule		tendoanelor

Derived terms

• tendonul lui Ahile

References

• tendon in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon or from English tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tenˈdon/
• Hyphenation: ten‧don

Noun

tendon (definite accusative tendonu, plural tendonlar)

1. (anatomy) tendon

   Synonym: kiriş

Further reading

• tendon in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tendon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük