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tenent

tenent is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 180 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.8.1: … u rerum nauticarum ceteros antecedunt et in magno impetu maris atque aperto paucis portibus interiectis, quos tenent ipsi, omnes fere qui eo mari uti consuerunt habent vectigales.

Vergil, Aeneid 6.131: dis geniti potuere. Tenent media omnia silvae,

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.