tendon

See also: tendón

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛn.dən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• Achilles tendon / Achilles’ tendon
• calcaneal tendon
• endotendon
• intertendon
• intratendon
• mesotendon
• midtendon
• musculotendon
• neotendon
• paratendon
• peritendon
• quadriceps tendon
• subtendon
• tendinopathy
• tendonectomy
• tendonitis
• tendon of Achilles
• tendony

Translations

band of fibrous tissue

• Albanian: dell (sq) m, tendin m
• Arabic: وَتَر (ar) m (watar)
• Armenian: ջիլ (hy) (ǰil)
• Azerbaijani: vətər
• Belarusian: сухажы́лле n (suxažýllje)
• Bulgarian: сухожи́лие (bg) n (suhožílie)
• Burmese: အရွတ် (my) (a.rwat)
• Catalan: tendó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肌腱 (zh) (jījiàn), 腱 (zh) (jiàn)

• Chuvash: шӑнӑр (šănăr)
• Czech: šlacha (cs) f
• Danish: sene c
• Dutch: pees (nl) c
• Esperanto: tendeno
• Estonian: kõõlus (et)
• Even: хум (hum)
• Finnish: jänne (fi)
• French: tendon (fr) m
• Galician: balastrón m, balistrón m, fío (gl) m, liña (gl) f, bestra f
• Georgian: მყესი (ka) (mq̇esi)
• German: Sehne (de) f
• Greek: τένοντας (el) m (ténontas)

  Ancient Greek: τένων m (ténōn)

• Haitian Creole: tandon
• Hebrew: גִיד (he) m (gid)
• Hindi: स्नायु (hi) f (snāyu), नस (hi) f (nas)
• Hungarian: ín (hu), ínszalag (hu)
• Icelandic: sin (is) f
• Indonesian: tendon (id), urat (id)
• Interlingua: tendine, tendon
• Irish: teannán
• Italian: tendine (it) m
• Japanese: 腱 (ja) (けん, ken), 筋 (ja) (すじ, suji)
• Kapampangan: litad
• Kazakh: сіңір (sıñır), тарамыс (taramys)
• Khmer: សរសៃពួរ (sɑɑ say puə), សរសៃ (km) (sɑɑ say)
• Korean: 심줄 (simjul), 힘줄 (ko) (himjul), 건(腱) (ko) (geon)
• Australian Kriol: jinuj
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژێ (ckb) (jê)

  Northern Kurdish: jê (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сиңир (ky) (siŋir), тарамыш (ky) (taramış)
• Lao: ນະຫາລຸ (na hā lu), ເອັນ (ē ʼan), ເສັ້ນເອັນ (sen ē ʼan)
• Latin: tenōn m
• Latvian: cīpsla f, dzīsla f
• Lithuanian: sausgyslė f
• Low German: Seen f
• Luxembourgish: Fies f
• Macedonian: тети́ва f (tetíva)
• Malay: tendon
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᠪᡝ (sube)
• Māori: uaua, iaia, io (mi), ioio, iohere,
• Middle English: synwe, thenoun
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: шөрмөс (mn) (šörmös), шандас (mn) (šandas)

• Munsee: wchéht
• Nanai: сумул (sumul)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sene (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: sene f, sen f

• Occitan: tendon (oc) m
• Old English: sinu f
• Ossetian: нуар (nwar)
• Persian: تاندون (tândon), پی (fa) (pay)
• Polish: ścięgno (pl) n
• Portuguese: tendão (pt) m
• Quechua: bunelan
• Romanian: tendon (ro) n, ligament (ro) n, vână (ro) f (popular)
• Russian: сухожи́лие (ru) n (suxožílije), жи́ла (ru) f (žíla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тѐтива f

  Latin: tètiva (sh) f

• Slovak: šľacha f
• Slovene: tetiva f, kita (sl) f
• Southern Altai: сиҥир (siŋir), тарам (taram)
• Spanish: tendón (es) m
• Swedish: sena (sv) c
• Tagalog: litid
• Tahitian: uaua
• Tajik: раг (rag), пай (pay)
• Tamil: தசைநாண் (tacaināṇ)
• Telugu: స్నాయువు (te) (snāyuvu)
• Thai: ลวดกำ (lûat gam), สายตัว (săai dtua), เอ็นกล้ามเนื้อ, แถบเอ็น (tɛ̀ɛp-en), เอ็น (th) (en), เส้นเอ็น (th) (sêen-en)
• Tibetan: རྒྱུད་པ (rgyud pa)
• Tocharian B: ṣñor
• Turkish: kiriş (tr), tendon (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سڭیر (siñir), طنب (tunub), عصب (ʿasab)

• Turkmen: ^{(please verify)} tendon
• Ukrainian: сухожи́лля (uk) n (suxožýllja)
• Unami: hàtës
• Uyghur: سىڭىر (si'ngir)
• Uzbek: pay (uz), chandir (uz)
• Vietnamese: gân (vi) (腱)
• Volapük: kordül
• Woiwurrung: beerip
• Yakut: иҥиир (iŋiir)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

See also

• ligament

References

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

Anagrams

• Denton

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtendon/
• Rhymes: -endon
• Syllabification: ten‧don

Noun

tendon

1. accusative singular of tendo

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

Noun

tendon m (plural tendons)

1. tendon

Derived terms

• tendon d'Achille

Related terms

• tendineux
• tendinite

Descendants

• → Romanian: tendon
• →? Turkish: tendon

Further reading

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

Japanese

Romanization

tendon

1. Rōmaji transcription of てんどん

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tenˈdon/

Noun

tendon n (plural tendoane)

1. (anatomy) tendon

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tendon	tendonul	tendoane	tendoanele
genitive-dative	tendon	tendonului	tendoane	tendoanelor
vocative	tendonule		tendoanelor

Derived terms

• tendonul lui Ahile

References

• “tendon”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tendon or from English tendon.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tendon (definite accusative tendonu, plural tendonlar)

1. (anatomy) tendon

   Synonym: kiriş

Further reading

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