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See also: tendón

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.dən/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

tendon (plural tendons)

  1. (anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.
    Synonym: sinew
    • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 78:
      I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.
  2. (biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.
  3. (construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.
Derived terms
  • Achilles tendon / Achilles’ tendon
  • calcaneal tendon
  • endotendon
  • Golgi tendon organ
  • intertendon
  • intratendon
  • mesotendon
  • midtendon
  • musculotendon
  • neotendon
  • paratendon
  • peritendon
  • quadriceps tendon
  • subtendon
  • tendinopathy
  • tendonectomy
  • tendonitis
  • tendon of Achilles
  • tendony
Translations
band of fibrous tissue
  • Albanian: dell (sq) m, tendin m
  • Amharic: ጅማት (ǧəmat)
  • Arabic: وَتَر (ar) m (watar)
  • Armenian: ջիլ (hy) (ǰil)
  • Azerbaijani: vətər
  • Belarusian: сухажы́лле n (suxažýllje)
  • Bulgarian: сухожи́лие (bg) n (suhožílie)
  • Burmese: အရွတ် (my) (a.rwat)
  • Catalan: tendó (ca) m
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 肌腱 (zh) (jījiàn), 腱 (zh) (jiàn)
  • Chuvash: шӑнӑр (šănăr)
  • Czech: šlacha (cs) f
  • Danish: sene c
  • Dutch: pees (nl) c
  • Esperanto: tendeno
  • Estonian: kõõlus (et)
  • Even: хум (hum)
  • Finnish: jänne (fi)
  • French: tendon (fr) m
  • Galician: balastrón m, balistrón m, fío (gl) m, liña (gl) f, bestra f
  • Georgian: მყესი (ka) (mq̇esi)
  • German: Sehne (de) f
  • Greek: τένοντας (el) m (ténontas)
    Ancient Greek: τένων m (ténōn)
  • Haitian Creole: tandon
  • Hebrew: גִיד (he) m (gid)
  • Hindi: स्नायु (hi) f (snāyu), नस (hi) f (nas)
  • Hungarian: ín (hu), ínszalag (hu)
  • Icelandic: sin (is) f
  • Indonesian: tendon (id), urat (id)
  • Interlingua: tendine, tendon
  • Irish: teannán
  • Italian: tendine (it) m
  • Japanese: 腱 (ja) (けん, ken), 筋 (ja) (すじ, suji)
  • Kapampangan: litad
  • Kazakh: сіңір (siŋir), тарамыс (taramıs)
  • Khmer: សរសៃពួរ (sɑɑ say puə), សរសៃ (km) (sɑɑ say)
  • Korean: 심줄 (simjul), 힘줄 (ko) (himjul), 건(腱) (ko) (geon)
  • Australian Kriol: jinuj
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: ژێ (ckb) (jê)
    Northern Kurdish: jê (ku)
  • Kyrgyz: сиңир (ky) (siŋir), тарамыш (ky) (taramış)
  • Lao: ນະຫາລຸ (na hā lu), ເອັນ (ē ʼan), ເສັ້ນເອັນ (sen ē ʼan)
  • Latin: tenōn m
  • Latvian: cīpsla f, dzīsla f
  • Lithuanian: sausgyslė f
  • Low German: Seen f
  • Luxembourgish: Fies f
  • Macedonian: тети́ва f (tetíva)
  • Malay: tendon
  • Manchu: ᠰᡠᠪᡝ (sube)
  • Māori: uaua, iaia, io (mi), ioio, iohere,
  • Middle English: synwe, thenoun
  • Mongolian:
    Cyrillic: шөрмөс (mn) (šörmös), шандас (mn) (šandas)
  • Munsee: wchéht
  • Nanai: сумул (sumul)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: sene (no) m or f
    Nynorsk: sene f, sen f
  • Occitan: tendon (oc) m
  • Old English: sinu f
  • Ossetian: нуар (nwar)
  • Persian: تاندون (tândon), پی (fa) (pay)
  • Polish: ścięgno (pl) n
  • Portuguese: tendão (pt) m
  • Quechua: bunelan
  • Romanian: tendon (ro) n, ligament (ro) n, vână (ro) f (popular)
  • Russian: сухожи́лие (ru) n (suxožílije), жи́ла (ru) f (žíla)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: тѐтива f
    Latin: tètiva (sh) f
  • Slovak: šľacha f
  • Slovene: tetiva f, kita (sl) f
  • Southern Altai: сиҥир (siŋir), тарам (taram)
  • Spanish: tendón (es) m
  • Swedish: sena (sv) c
  • Tagalog: litid
  • Tahitian: uaua
  • Tajik: раг (rag), пай (pay)
  • Tamil: தசைநாண் (tacaināṇ)
  • Telugu: స్నాయువు (te) (snāyuvu)
  • Thai: ลวดกำ (lûat gam), สายตัว (săai dtua), เอ็นกล้ามเนื้อ, แถบเอ็น (tɛ̀ɛp-en), เอ็น (th) (en), เส้นเอ็น (th) (sêen-en)
  • Tibetan: རྒྱུད་པ (rgyud pa)
  • Tocharian B: ṣñor
  • Turkish: kiriş (tr), tendon (tr)
    Ottoman Turkish: سڭیر (siñir), طنب (tunub), عصب (ʿasab)
  • Turkmen: (please verify) tendon
  • Ukrainian: сухожи́лля (uk) n (suxožýllja)
  • Unami: hàtës
  • Uyghur: سىڭىر (si'ngir)
  • Uzbek: pay (uz), chandir (uz)
  • Vietnamese: gân (vi) (腱)
  • Volapük: kordül
  • Woiwurrung: (please verify) birrip
  • Yakut: иҥиир (iŋiir)
  • Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

  • ligament

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 天丼 (tendon), clipping of 天ぷら丼 (tenpura donburi).

Noun

tendon (countable and uncountable, plural tendons)

  1. Tempura donburi, a bowl of rice topped with vegetables or seafood fried in batter.

References

  • “tendon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “tendon”, in Merriam-Webster Online, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Denton

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtendon/
  • Rhymes: -endon
  • Syllabification: ten‧don

Noun

tendon

  1. accusative singular of tendo

French

Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tendō.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/
    • Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɔ̃

    Noun

    tendon m (plural tendons)

    1. tendon

    Derived terms

    • tendon d'Achille

    Related terms

    • tendineux
    • tendinite

    Descendants

    • → Romanian: tendon
    • →? Turkish: tendon

    Further reading

    • “tendon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

    Italian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.don/
    • Rhymes: -ɛndon
    • Hyphenation: tèn‧don

    Verb

    tendon

    1. apocopic form of tendono

    Japanese

    Romanization

    tendon

    1. Rōmaji transcription of てんどん

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Medieval Latin tendōlbor.
    French tendonbor.
    Romanian tendon

      Borrowed from French tendon.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /tenˈdon/

      Noun

      tendon n (plural tendoane)

      1. (anatomy) tendon

      Declension

      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative tendon tendonul tendoane tendoanele
      genitive-dative tendon tendonului tendoane tendoanelor
      vocative tendonule tendoanelor

      Derived terms

      • tendonul lui Ahile

      References

      • “tendon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

      Turkish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from French tendon or from English tendon.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /tenˈdon/
      • Hyphenation: ten‧don

      Noun

      tendon (definite accusative tendonu, plural tendonlar)

      1. (anatomy) tendon
        Synonym: kiriş

      Further reading

      • “tendon”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
      • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “tendon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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