τένων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ténonts, from *ten- (“to stretch”); related to τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

τένων • (ténōn) m (genitive τένοντος); third declension

  1. tendon, sinew

Declension
Third declension of ὁ τένων; τοῦ τένοντος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ τένων
ho ténōn		 τὼ τένοντε
tṑ ténonte		 οἱ τένοντες
hoi ténontes
Genitive τοῦ τένοντος
toû ténontos		 τοῖν τενόντοιν
toîn tenóntoin		 τῶν τενόντων
tôn tenóntōn
Dative τῷ τένοντῐ
tôi ténonti		 τοῖν τενόντοιν
toîn tenóntoin		 τοῖς τένουσῐ / τένουσῐν
toîs ténousi(n)
Accusative τὸν τένοντᾰ
tòn ténonta		 τὼ τένοντε
tṑ ténonte		 τοὺς τένοντᾰς
toùs ténontas
Vocative τένον
ténon		 τένοντε
ténonte		 τένοντες
ténontes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Further reading
  • τένων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • τένων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • τένων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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