teso

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈtɛ.zu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈtɛ.zo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈte.zo]

teso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesar

Inherited from Latin tensus. Compare the borrowed doublet tenso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteso̝/

teso m (plural tesos)

1. hill; mountain; mountain top

   Synonyms: curuto, cotarelo

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)

1. taut, tight, tense, stretched
   • c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 342:

     Et acharom a seu señor Pyrrus moy malandante ẽna area, moy jnchado et tã teso que adur lles podo falar

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   Synonyms: irto, rexo, ríxido

2. stiff (formal in behavior; unrelaxed)

• entesar
• Teso

• “teso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “teso” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “teso” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “teso” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “teso” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.zo/, (traditional) /ˈte.so/[1]
• Rhymes: -ezo, (traditional) -eso
• Hyphenation: té‧so

Inherited from Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet tenso.

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesi, feminine plural tese, superlative tesissimo)

1. taut, tight, tense, stretched
2. outstretched
3. tense, nervous, fraught, strained
4. (followed by a) aimed, intended

• tesare

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesi, feminine plural tese)

1. past participle of tendere

teso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesare

• esto, oste, stoe

From Latin tēnsus. Compare the borrowed doublet of tenso.

• Hyphenation: te‧so

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)

1. taut (pulled tight, as in a rope)

   Synonyms: retesado, esticado, tenso

2. firm
3. decided
4. impetuous
5. (informal) penniless

• entesar

• tender
• tensão
• tesão

teso m (plural tesos)

1. steep mountain or hill
2. summit
3. (Brazil) elevated terrain

• “teso” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈteso/ [ˈt̪e.so]
• Rhymes: -eso
• Syllabification: te‧so

teso m (plural tesos)

1. crest of a hill

teso (feminine tesa, masculine plural tesos, feminine plural tesas)

1. (Colombia) smart; clever

teso

1. first-person singular present indicative of tesar

• “teso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014