tenetur

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

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.112: … tate paulum suo cursu decesserunt, has more praedonum diripere consuerunt. Eis autem invitis, a quibus Pharus tenetur, non potest esse propter angustias navibus introitus in portum. Hoc tum veritus Caesar, hostibus in pugna occ …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 19.113.11: … ; deinde animal est fortitudo, id est animus quodammodo se habens. Quis animus? Ille, qui modo iustitia erat? Tenetur in priore animali, in aliud animal transire ei non licet; in eo illi, in quo primum esse coepit, perseverandu …

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.