tenens

Present active participle of teneō (“to hold, have”).

tenēns (genitive tenentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. holding, having
2. restraining
3. knowing, grasping, understanding

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• Catalan: tinent
• Galician: tenza
• Italian: tenente
• Sicilian: tinenti
• Spanish: teniente
• → English: tenent

• tenens 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)

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tenens

1. definite genitive singular of ten

• stenen