tensura
Latin
Etymology
From tendō (“stretch, extend”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tenˈsuː.ra/, [t̪ẽːˈs̠uːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tenˈsu.ra/, [t̪enˈsuːrä]
Noun
tēnsūra f (genitive tēnsūrae); first declension
- stretching, straining, tension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tēnsūra | tēnsūrae |
Genitive | tēnsūrae | tēnsūrārum |
Dative | tēnsūrae | tēnsūrīs |
Accusative | tēnsūram | tēnsūrās |
Ablative | tēnsūrā | tēnsūrīs |
Vocative | tēnsūra | tēnsūrae |
Synonyms
- (stretching, straining): tendor
Related terms
Related terms
- tendicula
- tendō
- tendor
- tēnsiō
- tēnsus
- tentīgō
- tenta
- tentipellium
- tentō
- tentōrium
Descendants
- Portuguese: tesura
- Spanish: tesura
References
- “tensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tensura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tensura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette