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The corpus record — Latin

tĕnācŭlum

tĕnācŭlum · n

an instrument for holding

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What it meant

tĕnācŭlum — Lewis & Short

tĕnācŭlum, i, n.teneo,

I an instrument for holding, a holder, Ter. Maur. praef. 29, p 2383 P.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.