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English

Alternative forms

• Tenno, Tennou

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (tenn?).

Noun

tenno (plural tennos)

1. The emperor of Japan as her head of state and the head of the Japanese imperial family.

Synonyms

• mikado

Related terms

• Chrysanthemum Throne

References

• Webster’s Third New International Dictionary lists only the spelling tenno, noting that it is often capitalized.
• Microsoft Encarta Online has no entry.

Anagrams

• nonet, tenon, tonne

Italian

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (tenn?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?n.no/
• Rhymes: -?nno
• Hyphenation: tèn?no

Noun

tenno m (invariable)

1. The official title of the emperor of Japan.
2. The emperor of Japan.

References

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

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