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tenere

Pronunciation: /teˈne.re/

“tenere” is an Italian word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to hold
  2. to set aside; to conserve
  3. to hold (one's spot in line, etc.)
  4. to reserve
  5. to keep
  6. to hold up; to sustain
  7. continue to wear; to not remove (a garment); to keep on (a garment)
  8. to take
  9. to have; to possess
  10. to treat (in a certain way)
  11. to have employed
  12. to manage
  13. to carry out (of a speech, lesson, etc.)
  14. to have over or keep (at a place)
  15. to hold back (an impulse, feeling, etc.)
  16. to look over or take care of
  17. to assume or take up (a behavior, attitude, etc.)
  18. to take up (to occupy space)
  19. to contain
  20. to defend (a position, etc.) from enemy attack

In Italian

  1. stringere in mano o con una mano
  2. programmare e controllare spese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tenēre, from Proto-Italic *tenēō, stative from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

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