tenio - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Classical teneō, with extensive influence from veniō (“come”, which would have sounded similar once unstressed prevocalic /e/ and /i/ both turned to /j/). Attested in the Formulae Marculfi.[1]
teniō (present infinitive tenīre, perfect active *tēnī, supine *tenūtum); fourth conjugation (Early Medieval Latin)
- Alternative form of teneō (“to have, to possess”)
- see: teneō
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tĕnēre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 13: T–Ti, page 223.