tendre

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English

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Adjective

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tendre (comparative more tendre, superlative most tendre)

  1. Obsolete form of tender.

Verb

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tendre (third-person singular simple present tendres, present participle tendring, simple past and past participle tendred)

  1. Obsolete form of tender.

Noun

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tendre (plural tendres)

  1. (archaic) Tender feeling or fondness; affection.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair [], London: Bradbury and Evans [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre []
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
      So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan tendre, from older tenre (with epenthesis), from Latin tener (soft, tender), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (to stretch, draw). Compare Occitan tèndre, French tendre, Spanish tierno.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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tendre (feminine tendra, masculine and feminine plural tendres)

  1. soft, tender
  2. charming
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Latin tenēre, with a change in verb class.

Verb

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tendre

  1. (Alghero) Alternative form of tenir

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɑ̃dʁ/
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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old French tendre, from Latin tenerum, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (to stretch, draw).

Adjective

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tendre (plural tendres)

  1. tender (soft, delicate)
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old French tendre, from Latin tendere.

Verb

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tendre

  1. (transitive) to tighten
  2. (transitive) to stretch out
  3. (intransitive) to tend [with vers ‘towards’]
    tendre vers l’infinito tend to infinity
  4. (intransitive) to strive [with vers ‘for’]
  5. (reflexive) to become taut
Conjugation
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Old French tendre.

Adjective

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tendre

  1. tender (soft, delicate)
Descendants
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  • Scots: tender
  • English: tender

Etymology 2

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From Old English tynder.

Noun

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tendre

  1. Alternative form of tinder

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum.

Adjective

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tendre m or f

  1. (Jersey) tender

Old French

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Etymology 1

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From Latin tenerum, accusative of tener.

Adjective

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tendre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tendre)

  1. tender (soft, delicate)

Etymology 2

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From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō.

Verb

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tendre

  1. (transitive) to stretch
Conjugation
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This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

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