英语词汇tenor的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	tenor
词源	tenor [ME] In medieval music the tenor part was given the melody, and therefore ‘held’ it, reflecting its root, Latin tenere ‘to hold’. The tenor [ME] of something, as in ‘the general tenor of the debate’, also goes back to Latin tenere, via tenor ‘course, substance, meaning of a law’.
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