The corpus record — Latin

tensūra

tensūra · f

a stretching out

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What it meant

tensūra — Lewis & Short

tensūra, ae, f.id.,

I a stretching out, a straining, tension (post-class.): papilionis, i. e. a setting up, pitching, Hyg. Gromat. init.: corporis, Veg. Vet. 1, 21 fin.; 2, 25; Theod. Prisc. 4, 1 med.

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.