different between tendon vs tenon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tend?, from Ancient Greek ????? (tén?n, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tend? (“to stretch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?n/

Noun

tendon (plural tendons)

1. (anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

   Synonym: sinew

2. (biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.
3. (construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

Derived terms

• tendonitis
• Achilles’ tendon

Translations

References

• “tendon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “tendon”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• ligament

Anagrams

• Denton

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ten.don/

Noun

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tend?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tendon m (plural tendons)

1. tendon

Related terms

• tendineux
• tendinite

Further reading

• “tendon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ten?don/

Noun

tendon n (plural tendoane)

1. (anatomy) tendon

Declension

Derived terms

• tendonul lui Ahile

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n?d?n/

Noun

tendon (definite accusative tendonu, plural tendonlar)

1. (anatomy) tendon

Synonyms

• kiri?

English

Etymology

From Middle English tenoun, tenown, tenon, from Anglo-Norman tenoun, from Old French tenon.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n?n

Noun

tenon (plural tenons)

1. A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame.

Derived terms

• tenon saw

Translations

See also

• mortise-and-tenon joint

Verb

tenon (third-person singular simple present tenons, present participle tenoning, simple past and past participle tenoned)

1. (transitive) To make into a tenon.

   First we'll tenon this part, then we'll make a mortise that will fit it on that part.

2. (transitive) To fit with tenons.

Anagrams

• Tenno, nonet, tenno, tonne

French

Etymology

From ten(ir) +? -on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n? ?/

Noun

tenon m (plural tenons)

1. tenon

Further reading

• “tenon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (tén?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?te.no?n/, [?t??no?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.non/, [?t???n?n]

Noun

ten?n m (genitive tenontis); third declension

1. (anatomy) A tendon, nerve

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• tenon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French tenon.

Noun

tenon

1. Alternative form of tenoun

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin ten?n.

Noun

tenon

1. Alternative form of thenoun