tent English · revision 13215

− It is Middle English tente, [[bor|fro|tente|t=tent, hanging, tapestry]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from Medieval Latin tenta, literally something stretched out, the noun use of the feminine of Latin tentus, stretched, a past participle of tendere, to stretch (see [[tend]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from PIE *ten-, to stretch,^(Etymonline) from the phrase pellēs tendere, to stretch out skins, that is, to pitch tents.^(Hoad 1986) The notion is of skins or cloth stretched over a framework.^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021)