Etymology

tenure

ten·ure
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Today it means: A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency. Full definition →

Middle English tenure ← Old French tenure ← Vulgar Latin *tenitura
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  1. Latin · derived fromtentus
  2. Vulgar Latin · derived from*tenitura
  3. Old French · derived fromtenure
  4. Middle English · inherited fromtenure
  5. English todaytenure

From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.

Words from the same roots

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