"tener" meaning in Latin

See tener in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: tenera [singular, feminine, nominative], tenerum [singular, neuter, nominative], teneri [plural, masculine, nominative], tenerae [plural, feminine, nominative], tenera [plural, neuter, nominative], tenera [singular, feminine, vocative], tenerum [singular, neuter, vocative], teneri [plural, masculine, vocative], tenerae [plural, feminine, vocative], tenera [plural, neuter, vocative], tenerum [singular, masculine, accusative], teneram [singular, feminine, accusative], tenerum [singular, neuter, accusative], teneros [plural, masculine, accusative], teneras [plural, feminine, accusative], tenera [plural, neuter, accusative], teneri [singular, masculine, genitive], tenerae [singular, feminine, genitive], teneri [singular, neuter, genitive], tenerorum [plural, masculine, genitive], tenerarum [plural, feminine, genitive], tenerorum [plural, neuter, genitive], tenero [singular, masculine, dative], tenerae [singular, feminine, dative], tenero [singular, neuter, dative], teneris [plural, masculine, dative], teneris [plural, feminine, dative], teneris [plural, neuter, dative], tenero [singular, masculine, ablative], tenera [singular, feminine, ablative], tenero [singular, neuter, ablative], teneris [plural, masculine, ablative], teneris [plural, feminine, ablative], teneris [plural, neuter, ablative]
  1. Tendre, mou, sans consistance, sans résistance, flexible, frêle.
    Sense id: fr-tener-la-adj-CPUQY-2c Categories (other): Exemples en latin
  2. Léger, meuble (en parlant du sol).
    Sense id: fr-tener-la-adj-ENHZGuz2 Categories (other): Exemples en latin
  3. Tendre, jeune.
    Sense id: fr-tener-la-adj-~3It48Th Categories (other): Exemples en latin
  4. Tendre, sensible, doux, affectueux.
    Sense id: fr-tener-la-adj-h-EWkVn3 Categories (other): Exemples en latin
  5. Tendre, faible, mou, efféminé, voluptueux.
    Sense id: fr-tener-la-adj-4A3~w40g Categories (other): Exemples en latin
  6. Tendre, amoureux, galant, érotique.
    Sense id: fr-tener-la-adj-IM-UiIsZ Categories (other): Exemples en latin
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Adjectifs en latin, Lemmes en latin, Latin Derived forms: praetener, tenellŭlus, tenellus, tĕnĕrasco, tĕnĕresco, tĕnĕrē, tĕnĕrĭtĕr, tĕnĕrĭtās, tĕnĕrĭtūdo, tender, tierno, tendre, tenero, terno
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          "translation": "dès les plus tendres années."
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          "ref": "Stat.",
          "text": "teneri manes",
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      "translation": "très tendre",
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          "translation": "dès les plus tendres années."
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          "ref": "Stat.",
          "text": "teneri manes",
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.