tensura

From tendō (“stretch, extend”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tenˈsuː.ra/, [t̪ẽːˈs̠uːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tenˈsu.ra/, [t̪enˈsuːrä]

tēnsūra f (genitive tēnsūrae); first declension

1. stretching, straining, tension

First-declension noun.

• (stretching, straining): tendor

• Portuguese: tesura
• Spanish: tesura

• “tensura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tensura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tensura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette