Etymology

tenable

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Today it means: capable of being maintained or justified; well-founded Full definition →

French tenable
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  1. French · derived fromtenable
  2. English todaytenable

From the French tenable, from tenir (“to hold”); compare tenible.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.