Tent

Morpheme

Tent

Type

free base

Denotation

stretched, extended

Etymology

(1) Middle English tente; Old French tente; Medieval Latin tenta; Latin tentus, from tendere
(2) Latin -tentāre, from tentus, from tendere

Evidence

attent, attention, attentional, attentionless, attentions, attentive, attentively, attentiveness, attentivity, attently, disattention, hyperattention, hyperattentive, inattentive, nonattention, nonattentive, ostentation, ostentatious, ostentatiously, overattention, overattentive, polyattentive, preattention, preattentive, tent, tented, tenter, tenterbelly, tentered, tenterer, tenterground, tenterhook, tentering, tenters, tenting, tentpole, tents, unattention, unattentive, underattention, unostentatious, untentered

See Also

Tense

Homographs

Tent, Tent