tençon

Old French

Alternative forms
  • tençun

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *tentiō, tentiōnem (compare Old Occitan tensó, tensón), itself either an alteration of Latin contentiō (whence also Old French contençon and the later borrowing contention), or alternatively, from a Vulgar Latin verb *tentiāre (whence French tancer), derived from tentus, past participle of tendō. Compare also Occitan tençon, tenson, Catalan tençó, Italian tenzone; cf. modern French tenson (“type of medieval troubadour poetry involving disputes”).

Noun

tençon oblique singular, f (oblique plural tençons, nominative singular tençon, nominative plural tençons)

  1. quarrel; dispute

Descendants
  • French: tenson
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