Esperanto

Verb

tenus

1. conditional of teni

French

Verb

tenus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of tenir

Anagrams

• suent, usent

Ido

Verb

tenus

1. conditional of tenar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.nus/, [ˈtɛ.nʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.nus/, [ˈteː.nus]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *tenos, from Proto-Indo-European *tén-os, from *ten- ‎(“to stretch, draw”). Compare Sanskrit तनस् ‎(tánas), Ancient Greek τένος ‎(ténos). More at teneō ‎(“hold, grasp”).^[1]

Noun

tenus n ‎(genitive tenoris); third declension

1. some sort of snare

Declension

Third declension neuter.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *ten- ‎(“to stretch, draw”). The specific etymology is debated: De Vaan suggests that it is merely a petrified accusative of extent of the s-stem *tenos and rejects Meiser's suggestion that it stems from the Proto-Indo-European perfect participle *tn̥-wós.^[1][2]

Alternative forms

• -tenus written without a space

Postposition

tenus ‎(with genitive and ablative)

1. (with genitive and ablative) Right up to, as far as, just as far as
2. (with ablative, of a process) Up to (a given stage of)
3. (with genitive and ablative, of limitation) To the maximum extent of, within
4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) Lengthwise, along

Derived terms

• eātenus
• hāctenus
• ore tenus
• prōtinus/ prōtenus
• quātenus

Descendants

• (perhaps) *ad tenus
  • Old Portuguese: até
    • Portuguese: até

References

• tĕnus¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tĕnus² in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tenus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TENUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “1 tĕnŭs”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “2 tĕnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the water reaches to the waist: aqua est umbilīco tenus
    
• “tenus¹ ~oris” on page 2120/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “tenus²” on page 2120/2-3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “tenus” in Leo F. Stelten, editor (1995) Dictionary of ecclesiastical Latin: with an appendix of Latin expressions defined and clarified, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson Publishers

1. 1 2 De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “teneō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 612-613
2. ↑ Gerhard Meiser (1998) Laut-und Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache. Darmstadt. page 183.