English
tenorial
From tenor + -ial.
A compound of tenor + -ial
Proto-Indo-European *ten- ‘to stretch, draw’
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Latin tenor ‘course, continuance’
Old French tenor ‘substance, contents, meaning, sense’
Anglo-Norman tenour
Middle English tenour ‘the tone or character of something’
English tenor
Today it means
adj Of, pertaining or proper to the tenor voice
Sources
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