tenant
Old French
noun
Definitions
- holder
- possessor (of land or property); tenant
Etymology
Inherited from Latin tenens, tenentem.
Origin
Latin
tenens, tenentem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tenant English
- *tenīre Latin
- tenens, tenentem Latin
- tenēre Latin
- tenīre Latin
- tenere Italian
- lieutenant French
- maintenant French
- tenant French
- tener Spanish, Castilian
- teniente Spanish, Castilian
- *ten- Proto-Indo-European
- tenente Portuguese
- tenir Old French
- ține Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- tẽer Old Portuguese
- téner Occitan
- *tenēō Proto-Italic
- tener Asturian
- tiniri Sicilian
- tèniri Sicilian
- tegner Venetian
- tenaunt xno
- tenar Dalmatian
- tene Neapolitan
- tené Neapolitan
- tener Aragonese