tenent

From Latin tenent (“they hold”).

tenent (plural tenents)

1. (obsolete) A tenet.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv:

     Tully, 3 Tusc., cites Epicurus as a chief patron of this tenent.

• entent, net net, net-net, tenten

tenent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of teneō

tenent m (plural tenents)

1. (military, Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) lieutenant

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) litinent