tensio Latin · revision 7909

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Vitruvius|origins=la tendō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈtẽː.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈtɛn.si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''tēnsiō''' ''f'' (genitive tēnsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[tendō]] “to stretch” with the suffix [[-tiō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) It is also spelled ⟨tentiō⟩.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Gaffiot's earliest citation is from Vitruvius, of tension and the cords that produce it.^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Vitruvius c. 84–c. 25 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the process of drawing tight, tension, in Vitruvius the cords for tension, and in medicine a constriction, spasm.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Hyginus it meant the pitching of tents.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan and very rare.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant stretching out, extension, contraction, tension, setting up.^(Stelten 1995) British Medieval Latin used it for stretching a bow and tightness.^(DMLBS) It survives in Spanish ''tesón'' and Portuguese ''tesão'', and French ''tension'' or the Latin gave [[en|tension]] in the 1530s, “a stretched condition”.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of tension.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1530s – English ''tension'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Drawing tight, [[m|en|tension]]; a spasm.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The pitching (of tents).^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[tendicula]]

+ * [[tendō]]

+ * [[tendor]]

+ * [[tēnsūra]]

+ * [[tēnsus]]

+ * [[tenta]]

+ * [[tentīgō]]

+ * [[tentipellium]]

+ * [[tentō]]

+ * [[tentōrium]]

+ * [[en|tension]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}