tĕnĕo — Lewis & Short
to hold
The corpus record — Latin
teneo
teneo
to hold
Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.
Distribution
- Carmen Saeculare 2 · 64.72/10k
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 13s 1 · 58.82/10k
- Genethliacon ad Ausonium Nepotem 1 · 58.48/10k
- Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 1 · 49.75/10k
- Cimon 2 · 37.31/10k
- Thrasybulus 2 · 33.33/10k
- Hercules Oetaeus 34 · 30.18/10k
- Commentariolum Petitionis 13 · 29.94/10k
- Pharsalia 150 · 29.45/10k
- Phoenissae 11 · 26.9/10k
- Fasti 81 · 25.97/10k
- Thyestes 16 · 25.41/10k
Densest 12 of 302 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
Senses
Attestations
- tenerentur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.6.19
- tenebatur Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.7.19
- teneret Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.8.5
- tenebant Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.1.2
- tenent Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.11.14
- tenebat Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 16.5.4
6 of 4,542 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
Authority pointers, pending review
These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.
- scan p. 564; entry #9271 Review: Under source audit
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