Etymology

tendentious

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Today it means: Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased. Full definition →

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? ← English tendency ← Medieval Latin tendentia
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*ten-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tend-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*téndeti
  4. Proto-Italic*tendō
  5. Latintendō
  6. Latintendēns
  7. Medieval Latintendentia
  8. Englishtendency
  9. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
  11. English todaytendentious

From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.

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