tendon

Borrowed from French tendon or Medieval Latin tendō, from Ancient Greek τένων (ténōn, “sinew, tendon”), modified by association with the verb tendō (“to stretch”). Compare Middle English thenoun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.dən/

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tendon (plural tendons)

1. (anatomy) A tough band of flexible but inelastic fibrous collagen tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and transmits the force which the muscle exerts.

   Synonym: sinew

   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 78:

     I hear a wrenching sound of tendons stretching and testing their anchors on the bone.

2. (biology) The hamstring of a quadruped.
3. (construction) A wire or bar used to strengthen prestressed concrete.

• Achilles’ tendon

• ligament

• “tendon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “tendon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Denton

• IPA^(key): /ˈten.don/

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tendō.

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

tendon m (plural tendons)

1. tendon

• tendon d'Achille

• tendineux
• tendinite

• → Romanian: tendon
• →? Turkish: tendon

• “tendon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tendon

1. Rōmaji transcription of てんどん

Borrowed from French tendon.

• IPA^(key): /tenˈdon/

tendon n (plural tendoane)

1. (anatomy) tendon

• tendonul lui Ahile

• “tendon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Borrowed from French tendon or from English tendon.

• IPA^(key): /tenˈdon/
• Hyphenation: ten‧don

tendon (definite accusative tendonu, plural tendonlar)

1. (anatomy) tendon

   Synonym: kiriş

• “tendon”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tendon”, in Nişanyan Sözlük