tensa

See also: tensá

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɛn.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈten.sa]

Adjective

tensa

1. feminine singular of tens

Chamicuro

Noun

tensa

1. milk

Latin

Pronunciation

• tēnsa:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtẽː.sa]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn.sa]
• tēnsā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtẽː.saː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtɛn.sa]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *ten-s-ā, from Proto-Indo-European *ten-s-eh₂, *tn̥-s-eh₂, from *ten- (“to stretch, to extend”). See teneō.

Noun

tēnsa f (genitive tēnsae); first declension

1. the chariot or car on which the images of the gods were borne in the Circensian games
   • 1^th c. BCE, Titus Livius, book V. 41., in Ab Urbe Condita:

     Qui eorum (seniorum) curules gesserant magistratus, ut in fortunae pristinae honorumque ac virtutis insignibus morerentur, quae augustissima vestis est tensas ducentibus triumphantibusve, ea vestiti medio aedium eburneis sellis sedere.

     Those of which (of the elderly) who once held curule magistracies, that they may meet an end becoming their ancient worth, wearing the garment awarded to one who drove the tensae or has been given the honor of a triumph, sat in the middle of their houses on ivory chairs.

2. (in general) a carriage

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Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tēnsa	tēnsae
genitive	tēnsae	tēnsārum
dative	tēnsae	tēnsīs
accusative	tēnsam	tēnsās
ablative	tēnsā	tēnsīs
vocative	tēnsa	tēnsae

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

tēnsa

1. inflection of tēnsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

tēnsā

1. ablative feminine singular of tēnsus

References

• “tensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tensa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tensa", 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)
• “tensa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tensa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Anagrams

• antes

Portuguese

Adjective

tensa

1. feminine singular of tenso

Spanish

Adjective

tensa

1. feminine singular of tenso

Verb

tensa

1. inflection of tensar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative