tenuto
French, noun\te.nu.to\
tenuto is a French masculine noun meaning “tenuto” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marque qui indique qu’il faut tenir la note jouée”.
What does tenuto mean in English?
adjective
- 1
tenuto
adverb
- 1
tenuto
noun
- 1
masculinetenuto
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Tenu, en parlant d’une note jouée.
adverb: 1. De façon tenue, en parlant d’une note jouée.
noun: 1. Marque qui indique qu’il faut tenir la note jouée. 2. Jeu, doigté qui tient et marque les notes.
adjective: 1. Variante de tenuto.
adverb: 1. Variante de tenuto.
noun: 1. Variante de tenuto.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tenuto
- ténuto alternative
- tenutos plural
- ténutos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tenuto?
- \te.nu.to\
- \te.ny.to\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is tenuto in French?
tenuto appears about once in every 93 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).