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Meaning of tenisia | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
[tɛˈnɪ.si.a]

Definitions

  1. tennis
    New-Latin, declension-1, feminine
  2. Equivalent to 'tennis': A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.

Equivalents

English tennis

Examples

“Vicesimo secundo die mensis Augusti, anno Domini millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo, Thomas Blake, peliparius, Wilhelmus Whyte, barbitonsor, Johannes Karyn, chirothecarius, “husbundemen,” comparuerunt coram nobis Magistro J. Beek, sacræ theologiæ professore, ac Magistri Gilberti Kymer, hujus almæ Universitatis Oxoniæ Cancellarii, Commissario generali, [et] abjuraverant ludum tenesiarum infra Oxoniam et præcinctum ejusdem, tactis sacrosanctis evangeliis.”
“[…]; secundo de quibusdam enormitatibus concernentibus magistrum Holt, scilicet de crebro lusu ad tenisiam & hoc in locis pupplicis,[…]”
“luder’ ad tenesiam talos cardos et ad le Kayte sub pen.’ incarcerac.’ corporis.”
“Et quinto Kal. Septembris die Dominica Gallici intraverunt Angliam et fere destruxeruntc Willam de Sandwyche et interfecerunt multos Anglicos quam villam totaliter despoliaverunt et in illa villa ad tenesiam luserunt, set ad transitum suum in naves multi de Francis perierunt.”
“Et non licebit predictis firmariis nec alcui eorundem nec alcui alteri infra dictum manerium suum grangiam dicti manerii ad tenesiam ludere vel alicui alteri licentiam dare.”
“Vernō témpore plērúmque pilamálleō lūdō, sed intérdum étiam tenísiā lūdō.”

In the springtime I usually play golf, but at times I also play tennis.

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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