tenisia

Latin

Alternative forms

• tenesia

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /teˈni.si.a/, [t̪ɛˈnɪs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /teˈni.si.a/, [t̪eˈniːs̬iä]

Noun

tenisia f (genitive tenisiae); first declension

1. (New Latin) tennis
   • 1868 (1450), Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages, page 602:

     Vicesimo secundo die mensis Augusti, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo, Thomas Blake, peliparius, Wilhelmus Whyte, barbitonsor, Johannes Karyn, chirothecarius, “husbundemen,” comparuerunt coram nobis Magistro J. Beek, sacræ theologiæ professore, ac Magistri Gilberti Kymer, hujus almæ Universitatis Oxoniæ Cancellarii, Commissario generali, [et] abjuraverant ludum tenesiarum infra Oxoniam et præcinctum ejusdem, tactis sacrosanctis evangeliis.

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   • 1923 (1483–1521), Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis 1483-1521, page 156:

     […]; secundo de quibusdam enormitatibus concernentibus magistrum Holt, scilicet de crebro lusu ad tenisiam & hoc in locis pupplicis, […]

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   • 1939, Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, page 138:

     luder’ ad tenesiam talos cardos et ad le Kayte sub pen.’ incarcerac.’ corporis.

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   • 1972, Camden Miscellany, volume XXIV, page 218:

     Et quinto Kal. Septembris die Dominica Gallici intraverunt Angliam et fere destruxeruntc Willam de Sandwyche et interfecerunt multos Anglicos quam villam totaliter despoliaverunt et in illa villa ad tenesiam luserunt, set ad transitum suum in naves multi de Francis perierunt.

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   • 1995 (7 Edward IV (1467–1468)), Tennis: The Development of the European Ball Game, page 246:

     Et non licebit predictis firmariis nec alcui eorundem nec alcui alteri infra dictum manerium suum grangiam dicti manerii ad tenesiam ludere vel alicui alteri licentiam dare.

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   • 2007, John C. Traupman, Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency: Phrase Book and Dictionary, Classical and Neo-Latin, 4th edition, Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 42:

     Vernō témpore plērúmque pilamálleō lūdō, sed intérdum étiam tenísiā lūdō.

     In the springtime I usually play golf, but at times I also play tennis.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tenisia	tenisiae
Genitive	tenisiae	tenisiārum
Dative	tenisiae	tenisiīs
Accusative	tenisiam	tenisiās
Ablative	tenisiā	tenisiīs
Vocative	tenisia	tenisiae