tennis
See also: Tennis
English
Etymology
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez, second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛnɪs/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɛnɪs
Noun
tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)
- (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
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- (dated) A match in this sport.
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)
- (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- tennis-balls
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
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Derived terms
- football tennis
- lawn tennis
- real tennis
- table tennis
- tennis ball
- tennis court
- tennis elbow
- tennis player
- tennis racket
- tennis racquet
Descendants
- → Armenian: թենիս (tʿenis)
- → Arabic: تنس (tinis)
- → Asturian: tenis
- → Basque: tenis
- → Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac)
- → Catalan: tennis
- → Czech: tenis
- → Danish: tennis
- → Dutch: tennis
- → Finnish: tennis
- → French: tennis
- → Galician: tenis
- German: Tennis
- → Estonian: tennis
- → Borôro: el, τένις
- → Hebrew: טניס (ténis)
- → Hindi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
- → Hungarian: tenisz
- → Icelandic: tennis
- → Italian: tennis
- → Japanese: テニス (tenisu)
- → Korean: 테니스 (teniseu)
- → Latvian: teniss
- → Luxembourgish: Tennis
- → Malay: tenis
- → Northern Kurdish: tenîs
- → Norwegian: tennis
- → Persian: تنیس (tenis)
- → Polish: tenis
- → Portuguese: ténis, tênis
- → Romanian: tenis
- → Russian: те́ннис (ténnis)
- → Kazakh: теннис (tennis)
- → Scottish Gaelic: teanas
- → Serbo-Croatian: tenis / тенис
- → Slovene: tenis
- → Spanish: tenis
- → Swahili: tenisi
- → Swedish: tennis
- → Telugu: టెన్నిసు (ṭennisu), టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis)
- → Thai: เทนนิส (ten-nís)
- → Turkish: tenis
- → Ukrainian: теніс (tenis)
- → Uzbek: tennis
- → Walloon: tenisse
Translations
sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
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Verb
tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)
- (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
- (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], OCLC 606546850; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, OCLC 22906028:
- they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
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See also
- table tennis or ping pong
Anagrams
- innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin
Catalan
Alternative forms
- tenis
Etymology
From English tennis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.nis/
Noun
tennis m (uncountable)
- tennis
Further reading
- “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tennis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Danish
Etymology
From English tennis.
Noun
tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)
- (uncountable, sports) tennis
Derived terms
- tennisbane
- tennisbold
- tennisketsjer
Further reading
- “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.nəs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ten‧nis
- Rhymes: -ɛnɪs
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English tennis.
Noun
tennis n (uncountable)
- tennis (sport)
Derived terms
- rolstoeltennis
- tafeltennis
- tennisarm
- tennisbaan
- tennisnet
- tennisracket
- tennissen
- tennisspeelster
- tennisspeler
- tennisveld
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
tennis
- first-person singular present indicative of tennissen
- imperative of tennissen
Anagrams
- intens
Estonian
Etymology
From German Tennis.
Noun
tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)
- tennis
Finnish
Etymology
From English tennis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtenːis/, [ˈt̪e̞nːis̠]
- Rhymes: -enːis
- Syllabification(key): ten‧nis
Noun
tennis
- tennis
Declension
| Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | |
| partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
| illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | |
| accusative | nom. | tennis | tennikset |
| gen. | tenniksen | ||
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | |
| partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | |
| inessive | tenniksessä | tenniksissä | |
| elative | tenniksestä | tenniksistä | |
| illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | |
| adessive | tenniksellä | tenniksillä | |
| ablative | tennikseltä | tenniksiltä | |
| allative | tennikselle | tenniksille | |
| essive | tenniksenä | tenniksinä | |
| translative | tennikseksi | tenniksiksi | |
| instructive | — | tenniksin | |
| abessive | tenniksettä | tenniksittä | |
| comitative | — | tenniksineen | |
| Possessive forms of tennis (type vastaus) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | tennikseni | tenniksemme |
| 2nd person | tenniksesi | tenniksenne |
| 3rd person | tenniksensä | |
Synonyms
- verkkopallo (dated)
Compounds
- tenniskenkä
- tenniskenttä
- tenniskyynärpää
- tennismaila
- tennispallo
- tennistossu
- tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English tennis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te.nis/
audio (file)
Noun
tennis m (plural tennis)
- (usually uncountable) tennis
- (countable, Europe, dated) sneaker
Derived terms
- tennis de table
Further reading
- “tennis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʰɛnːɪs/
- Rhymes: -ɛnːɪs
Noun
tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)
- tennis
Declension
declension of tennis
| m-s1 | singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | tennis | tennisinn |
| accusative | tennis | tennisinn |
| dative | tennis | tennisnum |
| genitive | tenniss | tennissins |
Derived terms
- tennisolnbogi
- tennisspaði
Anagrams
- steinn
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English tennis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.nis/
- Rhymes: -ɛnnis
- Hyphenation: tèn‧nis
Noun
tennis m (invariable)
- tennis
Related terms
- tennistavolo
- tennista
- tennistico
Further reading
- tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
- (sports) tennis
Derived terms
- bordtennis
- tennisbane
- tennisspiller
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
- (sports) tennis
Derived terms
- bordtennis
- tennisbane
Swedish
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
tennis c (definite singular tennisen)
- (uncountable, sports) tennis
Derived terms
- tennisracket
Anagrams
- nitens, sinnet