tenus

tenus

1. conditional of teni

tenus

1. masculine plural of the past participle of tenir

• suent, usent

tenus

1. conditional of tenar

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

From Proto-Italic *tenos, from Proto-Indo-European *ténos, from *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Cognate with Sanskrit तनस् (tánas), Ancient Greek *τένος (*ténos) (attested in ἀτενής (atenḗs)), also with German Dohne which has the same meaning. More at teneō (“hold, grasp”).[1]

tenus n (genitive tenoris); third declension

1. some sort of snare

Third declension neuter.

From Proto-Italic *tenos, 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]

• -tenus (written without a space)

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

• aliquātenus
• eātenus
• hāctenus
• nullātenus
• ore tenus
• prōtinus, prōtenus
• quātenus

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

• 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)
• 1 tĕnŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 2 tĕnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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