Morpheme
Tine
Type
bound base
Denotation
hold, have, grasp, possess
Etymology
(1) Latin -tinēre, from tenēre; (2) Latin -tinuāre, from -tinuus, from -tinēre + -uus, from tenēre
Evidence
abstinence, abstinent, amphicontinental, archicontinent, bicontinental, continence, continence, continency, continent, continental, Continentaler, continentalism, continentalist, continentality, continentalization, continentalize, continentally, continentlike, continently, continentness, continentwide, continua, continuable, continual, continually, continuance, continuando, continuant, continuation, continuative, continuatively, continue, continued, continuedly, continues, continuing, continuingly, continuous, continuously, continuum, discontinue, epicontinental, extracontinental, hypercontinental, incontinence, incontinent, intercontinental, intracontinental, microcontinent, microcontinental, midcontinent, midcontinental, miscontinue, multicontinental, noncontinental, noncontinuing, palaeocontinent, palaeocontinental, paleocontinent, paleocontinental, pancontinental, pertinacious, pertinaciously, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pertinacy, pluricontinental, protocontinent, pseudocontinent, recontinue, retinacula, retinaculum, retinue, retinued, semicontinental, subcontinent, subcontinental, supercontinent, supercontinental, transcontinental, tricontinental, uncontinent, uncontinental
Notes
retinue and ritenuto are doublets
