tenet的词源

英文词源

tenet: tenet: see tenant
tenet (n.): "principle, opinion, or dogma maintained as true by a person, sect, school, etc.," properly "a thing held (to be true)," early 15c., from Latin tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "to hold, grasp, keep, have possession, maintain," also "reach, gain, acquire, obtain; hold back, repress, restrain;" figuratively "hold in mind, take in, understand."

The Latin word is from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cognates: Sanskrit tantram "loom," tanoti "stretches, lasts;" Persian tar "string;" Lithuanian tankus "compact," i.e. "tightened;" Greek teinein "to stretch," tasis "a stretching, tension," tenos "sinew," tetanos "stiff, rigid," tonos "string," hence "sound, pitch;" Latin tendere "to stretch," tenuis "thin, rare, fine;" Old Church Slavonic tento "cord;" Old English þynne "thin"). Connecting notion between "stretch" and "hold" is "cause to maintain." The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine.

借用于拉丁语动词tenere(握,持有)的现在时第三人称单数形式tenet。

词根词缀： -ten-握,持有 + et(= -it )名词词尾 → 要紧紧握住的东西

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来自拉丁语 tenet,他所持有的，他所坚持的，来自 tenere 的指示格，来自 tenere,持有，握住，坚持，词源同 contain,tenure.引申词义原则，信条，教义等。