maintenir
Old French
verb
Definitions
- to maintain (to keep the same)
Etymology
Compound from Old French main + Old French tenir inherited from Latin manus (hand, handwriting, power), manūtenēre, manuteneo, manūteneō.
Origin
Latin
manūtenēre, manuteneo, manūteneō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- amanuensis English
- maintain English
- maintainability English
- maintainable English
- maintainest English
- maintaineth English
- maintenance English
- manumotor English
- manus English
- undermaintain English
- *-idiāre Latin
- *mania Latin
- *manicius Latin
- *manicum Latin
- *manidiare Latin
- *manidiāre Latin
- *manuoperō Latin
- *tenīre Latin
- adminiculum Latin
- albimanus Latin
- amanuensis Latin
- bellamanus Latin
- centimanus Latin
- crassimanus Latin
- flavimanus Latin
- grandimanus Latin
- longimanus Latin
- manceps Latin
- mando Latin
- manicus Latin
- manifolium Latin
- manualis Latin
- manuarius Latin
- manuatus Latin
- manupretium Latin
- manus Latin
- manuscriptum Latin
- manutergium Latin
- manū Latin
- manū opera Latin
- manūteneō Latin
- manūtenēre, manuteneo Latin
- manūtenēre, manuteneo, manūteneō Latin
- nigrimanus Latin
- tenēre Latin
- unimanus Latin
- handhaben German
- giumella Italian
- mano Italian
- mantenere Italian
- manutenere Italian
- main French
- maintenance French
- maintenant French
- mainteneur French
- maintenir French
- manicure French
- manier French
- manière French
- manucure French
- tenir French
- mantener Spanish, Castilian
- *man- Proto-Indo-European
- *mon- Proto-Indo-European
- *méh₂-r̥, *mh₂-én-, *méh₂r̥ Proto-Indo-European
- manévr Czech
- main Old French
- maintenant Old French
- maintenement Old French
- meintenir Old French
- tenir Old French
- menține Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mână Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mintin Cebuano
- mintinar Cebuano
- hanthaven Middle Dutch
- mantenar Ido
- manuo Ido
- main Norman
- man Norman
- tenir Norman
- hanthaben Middle High German
- main Middle French
- tenir Middle French
- manteer Old Portuguese
- mão Old Portuguese
- mãnã Aromanian
- manlevar Occitan
- *manus Proto-Italic
- maun Romansh
- mano Asturian
- mantener Asturian
- man Friulian
- man Old Occitan
- mano Old Spanish
- manu Sicilian
- man Venetian
- mantegner Venetian
- nam Volapük
- man Ligurian
- mun Dalmatian
- mantener Ladino
- mwin Walloon
- tni Walloon
- moin Bourguignon
- man Ladin
- manu Sardinian
- mana Neapolitan
- mano Neapolitan
- man Istriot
- mano Mirandese
- maneggiare roa-oit
- mǫnă Megleno-Romanian