tenure
/ˈtɛn.jʊə/ · noun
Meaning
- A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
- A period of time during which something is possessed.
- A status of having a permanent post with enhanced job security within an academic institution.
- A right to hold land under the feudal system.
- To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
Etymology / origin
From Middle English tenure, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French tenure, from Vulgar Latin *tenitura, from *tenitus, from Latin tentus (from teneō) + -ura.
- tentus(Latin)→
- *tenitura(la-vul)→
- tenure(Old French)→
- -(xno)→
- tenure(Middle English)→
- *ten-(ine-pro)→
- tenure (English)
- Relations: root, inh, der, der, der, der
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