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tenentem

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

Found 40 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 4.9.2: … secutus esset nec fratre tuo consulatum ex auctoritate tua gerente vobis auctoribus uti voluerit, nunc omnia tenentem nostras sententias desideraturum censes fuisse?

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.