tenuit

tenuit is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”. It is the 3rd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 308 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.8.2: … erat, ad solis occasum naves solvit et leni Africo provectus media circiter nocte vento intermisso cursum non tenuit, et longius delatus aestu orta luce sub sinistra Britanniam relictam conspexit.

Cicero, De Republica 2.56: Tenuit igitur hoc in statu senatus rem publicam temporibus illis, ut in populo libero pauca per populum, pleraque se …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.328: QUEM SI NON TENUIT, MAGNIS TAMEN EXCIDIT AUSIS.

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.