teneur

French

noun

Definitions

content, contents, tenor
tenor musical part holding the main melody

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tenor (sense, substance, contents, meaning, tenor part in music) derived from Latin tenor (holder, continuance, course).

Origin

Latin

tenor

Gloss

holder, continuance, course

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

tenor Latin
tenore Italian
teneur Dutch, Flemish
*ten- Proto-Indo-European
tenor Old French
tenór Icelandic
teor Galician
tenour xno