The corpus record

τένων

tenon · ὁ

sinew, tendon

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Iliad 8 · 0.72/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

τένων · tenōn — LSJ

sinew, tendon, foot

sinew, tendon, ἀπέκοψε τένοντας αὐχενίους Od. 3.449; freq. in dual, ἄμφω ῥῆξε τένοντε Il. 5.307, al., cf. 4.521, Hes. Sc. 419; of the arm, ἵνα τε ξυνέχουσι τένοντες ἀγκῶνος Il. 20.478; of the foot, ποδῶν τέτρηνε τένοντε 22.396, cf. E. Ph. 42; τ. ποδός, the outstretched foot, Id. Cyc. 400; ὁ τ. ὁ ὀπίσθιος the Achilles tendon, Hp. Fract. 11; ὁ τ. ὁ ἐν τῇ κνήμῃ τοῦ ποδός ib. 16, cf. Arist. HA 515b9; τ. defined as a species of νεῦρον, Gal. 2.739, cf. 6.772: abs., for the foot, πτέρναι τενόντων θʼ ὑπ

II ridge

metaph., mountain-ridge, Καυκάσιος τ. AP 4.3b.12 (Agath.).

In the wild

τενόντων · tenontōn Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 209–210
τένοντα · tenonta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5250)
τένοντʼ · tenontʼ Euripides, Bacchae 938
τένοντας · tenontas Euripides, Phoenissae *)ioka/sth (DIORISIS sentence 20)
τένοντε · tenonte Shield of Heracles 419
τένοντε · tenonte Iliad 10.456

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. τένων (scan p. 1518; entry #6011).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. τένων (scan p. 1124; entry #7922).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. τένων (scan p. 1849; entry #5600).

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