tenentur

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

Found 56 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.3: … ei atque eorum, qui veteres inimicitias eum Caesare gerebant, in senatum coguntur; quorum vocibus et concursu tenentur infirmiores, dubii confirmantur, plerisque vero libere decernendi potestas eripitur. Pollicetur L. Piso censo …

Seneca the Younger, De Ira 1.19.4: … tusque percutere? ~Quantam~ iram putas, quae, quia in alium non tam cito quam uult erumpit, in se reuertitur? Tenentur itaque a proximis et rogantur ut sibi ipsi placentur.

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.