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English

Etymology

Old French tenez, second-person imperative of tenir (“hold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.?s/
• Rhymes: -?n?s

Noun

tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)

1. (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
2. (dated) A match in this sport.
   • 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch (page 95)

     We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]

3. (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)

1. (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
2. (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.

   • they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them

See also

• table tennis or ping pong

Anagrams

• innest, nestin, sennit, sinnet, tensin

Catalan

Alternative forms

• tenis

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?n.nis/

Noun

tennis m (uncountable)

1. tennis

Further reading

• “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tennis” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Danish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisbane
• tennisbold
• tennisketsjer

Further reading

• “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.n?s/
• Hyphenation: ten?nis

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tennis.

Noun

tennis n (uncountable)

1. tennis (sport)

Derived terms

• rolstoeltennis
• tafeltennis
• tennisarm
• tennisbaan
• tennisnet
• tennisracket
• tennissen
• tennisspeelster
• tennisspeler
• tennisveld

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tennis

1. first-person singular present indicative of tennissen
2. imperative of tennissen

Anagrams

• intens

Estonian

Noun

tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)

1. tennis

Finnish

Etymology

From English tennis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ten?is/, [?t?e?n?is?]
• Rhymes: -en?is
• Syllabification: ten?nis

Noun

tennis

1. tennis

Declension

Synonyms

• verkkopallo (dated)

Compounds

• tenniskenkä
• tenniskenttä
• tenniskyynärpää
• tennismaila
• tennispallo
• tennistossu
• tennisturnaus (tennis tournament)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tennis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te.nis/

Noun

tennis m (plural tennis)

1. (usually uncountable) tennis
2. (countable, Europe, dated) sneaker

Derived terms

• tennis de table

Further reading

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??n??s/
• Rhymes: -?n??s

Noun

tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)

1. tennis

Declension

Derived terms

• tennisolnbogi
• tennisspaði

Anagrams

• steinn

Italian

Etymology

From English tennis.

Noun

tennis m (invariable)

1. tennis

Related terms

• tennistavolo
• tennista
• tennistico

Further reading

• tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

• bordtennis
• tennisbane
• tennisspiller

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)

1. (sports) tennis

Derived terms

• bordtennis
• tennisbane

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tennis c (definite singular tennisen)

1. (uncountable, sports) tennis

Derived terms

• tennisracket

Anagrams

• nitens, sinnet

English

Etymology

pickle +? ball

Noun

pickleball (uncountable)

1. A racquet sport, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, tennis, and table tennis.