tenet

• n. 原則；信条；教義
• n. （テネット）人名；（仏）テネット；（英）テネット

ラテン語のtenetから、その人が保持するもの、固執するもの、tenereの指示詞から、保持する、つかむ、固執する、語源的にはcontain、tenureと同じ。

tenet

tenet: see tenant

tenet (n.)

"principle, opinion, or dogma maintained as true by a person, sect, school, etc.," properly "a thing held (to be true)," early 15c., from Latin tenet "he holds," third person singular present indicative of tenere "to hold, grasp, keep, have possession, maintain," also "reach, gain, acquire, obtain; hold back, repress, restrain;" figuratively "hold in mind, take in, understand."

The Latin word is from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cognates: Sanskrit tantram "loom," tanoti "stretches, lasts;" Persian tar "string;" Lithuanian tankus "compact," i.e. "tightened;" Greek teinein "to stretch," tasis "a stretching, tension," tenos "sinew," tetanos "stiff, rigid," tonos "string," hence "sound, pitch;" Latin tendere "to stretch," tenuis "thin, rare, fine;" Old Church Slavonic tento "cord;" Old English tynne "thin"). Connecting notion between "stretch" and "hold" is "cause to maintain." The modern sense is probably because tenet was used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine.

1. This is a basic tenet of capitalism.

資本主義の基本的な信条である。

2.The judge 's ruling was based on the simple commonsense tenet that no man is above the law.

裁判官の判決は、誰も法律を凌駕することはできないという常識的な原則に基づいている。

3.The only moral tenet governing the conduct of business in the shop was that the goods should be genuine and the price fair.

正真正銘、店唯一のモラル.

4.The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc.

改ざんは、過去には英社の中心原則だった。

5.I hold to the tenet that theory should be united with practice.

理論と実践を結合しなければならないという原則を堅持しています。