tenro

Galician

tenro (feminine tenra, masculine plural tenros, feminine plural tenras)

(of food) tender (soft and easily chewed)
tender (physically weak)
- 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 149:
  Digo que o potro, porque é tenro e mole das carnes, que o deven liar, quando o fillaren, con corda de lãa grosa levemente e mansamente, por[que] a lãa é máis ligeira que o liño
  I say that the colt, because he is tender and soft in his flesh, must be tied, whenever they catch him, with a thick rope of wool, softly and meekly, because wool is lighter than flax
tender (fond, loving, gentle, sweet)

Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tenro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tenro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tenro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tenro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese tẽero, from Latin tenerum, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Compare its doublet terno.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.ʁu/ [ˈtẽ.hu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.ʁu/ [ˈtẽ.χu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtẽ.ʁo/ [ˈtẽ.ho]

tenro (feminine tenra, masculine plural tenros, feminine plural tenras)