tenentes

tenentes is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the present active participle accusative plural masculine.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.87: … ius hanc lustrationem eiusdem incensa radiis menstruo spatio luna complet; quinque autem stellae eundem orbem tenentes, aliae propius a terris aliae remotius, ab isdem principiis disparibus temporibus eadem spatia conficiunt. nu …

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.