tend
English
/tɛnd/
verb
Definitions
- (legal) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
- (intransitive) To contribute to or toward some outcome.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English *tenden derived from Old French tendre (stretch out, hold forth, offer, tender, stretch) derived from Latin tendere (extend, stretch, spread out, stretch out) root from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (stretch, extend).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*tend-
Gloss
stretch, extend
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- atend English
- goal English
- goaltend English
- tendency English
- tendest English
- tendeth English
- tendment English
- extendere Latin
- extendo Latin
- extendō Latin
- ostentāre Latin
- portendere Latin
- portendo Latin
- portentum Latin
- tendentia Latin
- tendere Latin
- tener, tenerum Latin
- tenerum Latin
- tondeo Latin
- tondēre Latin
- tendieren German
- tendere Italian
- tendens Dutch, Flemish
- tendance French
- tendre French
- tender Spanish, Castilian
- *ten- Proto-Indo-European
- *tend- Proto-Indo-European
- tendere Norwegian Bokmål
- tender Portuguese
- *tenden Middle English
- attenden Middle English
- tendre Middle English
- tendren Middle English
- tænde Danish
- tænder Danish
- tendre Old French
- tendrement Old French
- tinde Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tendre Norman
- *tonnā Proto-Celtic
- *tendō Proto-Italic
- tindi Friulian
- tender xno
- tændæ Old Danish