tenant
French
present participle
Etymology
Inherited from Old French tenant inherited from Latin tenens, tenentem.
Origin
Latin
tenens, tenentem
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- luutnantti Finnish
- tenens, tenentem Latin
- tenēre Latin
- Leutnant German
- lieu French
- lieutenant French
- lieutenante French
- main French
- maintenant French
- maintenir French
- лейтена́нт Russian
- teniente Spanish, Castilian
- tenente Portuguese
- løjtenant Danish
- løjtnant Danish
- tenant Old French
- leŭtenanto Esperanto
- leytenant Azerbaijani
- litinent Romansh
- tenaunt xno