Translation
tent
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 a will be understood by anyone who has been to one.
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