tener
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Gustavo Arellano: There’s a saying in Spanish: no tener pelos en la lengua.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2018
The arms of the latter, with his lance and banner, are shown at the Ayuntamiento, or town-house; I do not admire his commercial motto— Quien lanza sabe tener, Ella le da de comer.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Nom. tener tenera tenerum Gen. tenerī tenerae tenerī Dat. tenerō tenerae tenerō Acc. tenerum teneram tenerum Voc. tener tenera tenerum Abl. tenerō tenerā tenerō PLURAL.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Tenera is the feminine form of tener, slender, delicate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The following however, are declined like tener: asper, rough; lacer, torn; līber, free; miser, wretched; prōsper, prosperous; compounds in -fer and -ger; sometimes dexter, right.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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