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tenebo

tenebo is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the 1st person singular future active indicative.

Found 37 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.107: nam illud quidem non dices—quod utinam dicas!—ad Apronium non pervenisse tantum. ita te non modo publicis tenebo sed etiam privatis aratorum pactionibus ac litteris ut intellegas non te diligentiorem in faciendis furtis fu …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.7.3: Tenebo ergo hoc temperamentum, ut ex duobus, quorum alterutrum petis, eligam id potius, in quo non solum studio tuo verum etiam iudicio satisfaciam. Neque enim tantopere mihi considerandum est, quid vir optimus in praesentia velis, quam quid semper sis probaturus.

All forms of teneo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.