tenon

From Middle English tenoun, from Middle French tenon, from Old French tenon.

• Rhymes: -ɛnən

tenon (plural tenons)

1. A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.

• tenon saw

• mortise-and-tenon joint

tenon (third-person singular simple present tenons, present participle tenoning, simple past and past participle tenoned)

1. (transitive) To make into a tenon.

   First we'll tenon this part, then we'll make a mortise that will fit it on that part.

2. (transitive) To fit with tenons.

• Tenno, nonet, tenno, tonne

From ten(ir) +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /tənɔ ̃/

tenon m (plural tenons)

1. tenon

• “tenon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.noːn/, [ˈtɛ.noːn]

tenōn m (genitive tenōntis); third declension

1. (anatomy) A tendon, nerve

Third declension.

• tenon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Borrowed from Middle French tenon.

tenon

1. Alternative form of tenoun

Borrowed from Latin tenōn.

tenon

1. Alternative form of thenoun