Translation
tent
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Word origin
From Latin tenta, from tendere, to stretch. A tent is stretched cloth, and the same verb gives tension, extend and even tendon, all of them things pulled taut.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- tendere
- English cognates
- tent, tense, extend, tendon
Examples
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We slept in a tent by the river.
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The fox came to our tent during the night.
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Can you put the tent up on your own?
Camping vocabulary clusters neatly around this root. is a camp, using -- for a collection - a set of tents makes an encampment - and i is the verb, to camp, one of the useful -um- words where the ending simply means "do the obvious thing with this". A o is a campsite. Esperanto meetings have leaned on all of these for a century: the yearly youth congresses run on , and the phrase will be understood by anyone who has been to one.
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Word family
Words built on tendo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- tendaronoun
camp, campsite
tendo-ar-
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 10: tendo, plado, vulpo and 7 more words.