tendere

See also: tenderé

Italian

Etymology

From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō (I stretch, stretch out, distend, extend), from Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (to stretch, draw).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛndere

Verb

tendere

  1. (transitive) to tighten
  2. (transitive) to stretch
  3. (transitive) to crane (the neck)
  4. (intransitive) to tend
    • 2014 October 15, “L’amore è negli occhi”, in Le news più strane:
      É emerso infatti che chi cerca l’amore tende a guardare maggiormente i volti, mentre chi vuole solamente un’avventura erotica tende a guardare principalmente i corpi.
      It in fact emerged that those who seek love mainly tend to look at faces, while those who just want an erotic adventure chiefly tend to look at bodies.
  5. (intransitive) to draw (the bow)

Conjugation

Anagrams


Latin

Verb

tendēre

  1. second-person singular future passive indicative of tendō

Verb

tendere

  1. present active infinitive of tendō
  2. second-person singular present passive imperative of tendō
  3. second-person singular present passive indicative of tendō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin tendere, via German tendieren

Verb

tendere (present tense tenderer, passive tenderes, simple past tenderte, past participle tendert, present participle tenderende)

  1. to tend (mot / to do something)

References

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