tençon

• tençun

From a Vulgar Latin *tentiō, tentiōnem (compare Old Occitan tensó, tensón), itself either an alteration of Latin contentiō (whence also Old French contençon and the later borrowing contention), or alternatively, from a Vulgar Latin verb *tentiāre (whence French tancer), derived from tentus, past participle of tendō. Compare also Occitan tençon, tenson, Catalan tençó, Italian tenzone; cf. modern French tenson (“type of medieval troubadour poetry involving disputes”).

tençon f (oblique plural tençons, nominative singular tençon, nominative plural tençons)

1. quarrel; dispute

• French: tenson