tenente

tenente is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the present active participle ablative singular masculine or present active participle ablative singular feminine or present active participle ablative singular neuter.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 3.43: … s oppidi et ad urbis crepidines infusi, viae latae, porticus, templa, muri nihilo magis efficiebant, Dionysio tenente ut esset illa res publica; nihil enim populi et unius erat populus ipse. Ergo ubi tyrannus est, ibi non vitio …

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.