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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis (usually uncountable, plural tennises)
- (sports) A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke […] whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
- (dated) A match in this sport.
- 1918, Violet Hunt, The Last Ditch, page 95:
- We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises […]
- (obsolete) An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- tennis-balls
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
Derived terms[edit]
- anti-tennis
- court tennis
- football tennis
- lawn tennis
- paddle tennis
- platform tennis
- real tennis
- ring tennis
- royal tennis
- soft tennis
- squash tennis
- table tennis
- table tennis table
- telly tennis
- tennis ball
- tennis bracelet
- tennis club
- tennis court
- tennis dress
- tennis elbow
- tennis player
- tennis polo
- tennis-racket
- tennis racket
- tennis racquet
- tennis shirt
- tennis shoe
- tennis wear
- text tennis
- tonsil tennis
- totem tennis
- wheelchair tennis
Descendants[edit]
- → Armenian: թենիս (tʻenis)
- → Arabic: تِنِس (tinis)
- → Asturian: tenis
- → Basque: tenis
- → Burmese: တင်းနစ် (tang:nac)
- → Catalan: tennis
- → Czech: tenis
- → Danish: tennis
- → Dutch: tennis
- → Finnish: tennis
- → French: tennis
- → Galician: tenis
- German: Tennis
- → Estonian: tennis
- → Greek: τένις (ténis)
- → Borôro: el, τένις
- → Hebrew: טניס (ténis)
- → Hindi: टेनिस (ṭenis)
- → Hungarian: tenisz
- → Icelandic: tennis
- → Italian: tennis
- → Japanese: テニス (tenisu)
- → Korean: 테니스 (teniseu)
- → Latvian: teniss
- → Luxembourgish: Tennis
- → Malay: tenis
- → Northern Kurdish: tenîs
- → Norwegian: tennis
- → Persian: تنیس (tenis)
- → Polish: tenis
- → Portuguese: ténis, tênis
- → Romanian: tenis
- → Russian: те́ннис (ténnis)
- → Kazakh: теннис (tennis)
- → Scottish Gaelic: teanas
- → Serbo-Croatian: ténis / те́нис
- → Slovene: tenis
- → Spanish: tenis
- → Swahili: tenisi
- → Swedish: tennis
- → Telugu: టెన్నిసు (ṭennisu), టెన్నిస్ (ṭennis)
- → Thai: เทนนิส (ten-nít)
- → Turkish: tenis
- → Ukrainian: те́ніс (ténis)
- → Uzbek: tennis
- → Walloon: tenisse
Translations[edit]
sport played by two or four players with strung racquets
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Verb[edit]
tennis (third-person singular simple present tennises, present participle tennising, simple past and past participle tennised)
- (intransitive, dated) To play tennis.
- (transitive) To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
- 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
- they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis m (uncountable)
Further reading[edit]
- “tennis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tennis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “tennis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis c (definite singular tennissen or tennisen)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tennis” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis n (uncountable)
- tennis (sport)
Derived terms[edit]
- rolstoeltennis
- tafeltennis
- tennisarm
- tennisbaan
- tennisnet
- tennisracket
- tennissen
- tennisspeelster
- tennisspeler
- tennisveld
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
tennis
- inflection of tennissen:
Anagrams[edit]
Estonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis (genitive tennise, partitive tennist)
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis
Declension[edit]
| Inflection of tennis (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | ||
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | ||
| partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | ||
| illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | tennis | tennikset | ||
| accusative | nom. | tennis | tennikset | |
| gen. | tenniksen | |||
| genitive | tenniksen | tennisten tenniksien | ||
| partitive | tennistä | tenniksiä | ||
| inessive | tenniksessä | tenniksissä | ||
| elative | tenniksestä | tenniksistä | ||
| illative | tennikseen | tenniksiin | ||
| adessive | tenniksellä | tenniksillä | ||
| ablative | tennikseltä | tenniksiltä | ||
| allative | tennikselle | tenniksille | ||
| essive | tenniksenä | tenniksinä | ||
| translative | tennikseksi | tenniksiksi | ||
| abessive | tenniksettä | tenniksittä | ||
| instructive | — | tenniksin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms[edit]
- verkkopallo (dated)
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
Further reading[edit]
- “tennis”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis m (plural tennis)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tennis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis m (genitive singular tenniss, no plural)
Declension[edit]
declension of tennis
Derived terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis m (invariable)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- tennis in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
Derived terms[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
tennis m (definite singular tennisen) (uncountable)
Derived terms[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
tennis c
Declension[edit]
| Declension of tennis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | tennis | tennisen | — | — |
| Genitive | tennis | tennisens | — | — |
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- tennis in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tennis in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams[edit]
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