tenore
NOUN · Italian
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Italian is Experimental in Words. Support is measured, not declared: a language reaches Partial only when every measure meets its threshold, and a measure that has not been taken does not count. The development corpus holds 31 source-backed words in Italian. What is shown may be incomplete, and pronunciation audio, generated forms and generated examples are not offered.
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Definition: way, manner From a source of medium confidence.
masculine
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Definition: the concentration of a substance From a source of medium confidence.
masculine
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Definition: tenor (musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody) From a source of medium confidence.
archaic · masculine
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Definition: tenor (musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto) From a source of medium confidence.
masculine · uncountable
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Definition: tenor (person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor range) From a source of medium confidence.
masculine
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- Quando appressato fu a quel vallone Alquanto udì un’angelica voce, Con due tenori onde ascoltar si pone When he arrived close to that valley, he heard an angelic voice, with two tenors; so he began to listen c. 1344, Giovanni Boccaccio, Ninfale fiesolano, ossia L'innamoramento di Affrico e Mensola, section LVI (section 56), page 23; republished as Ninfale fiesolano di messer Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, 1851:
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Etymology: From Latin tenor, tenōrem (“a sustained, continuous course or movement, a continuity of events, conditions etc. or way of proceeding”), derived from teneō (“to hold”). From a source of medium confidence.
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