Etymology

tendinous

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Today it means: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tendon or sinew. Full definition →

New Latin tendinōsus
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  1. New Latin · borrowed fromtendinōsus
  2. English todaytendinous

Borrowed from New Latin tendinōsus, from tendō (“sinew, tendon”) + -ōsus (“-ous”).

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