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    [Adjective]  | "ten*der" | \ ˈten-dər \


    1: marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : fond, loving

    2: showing care : considerate, solicitous

    3: highly susceptible to impressions or emotions : impressionable


    Origin: 13th century ;

     Middle English tendre, tender, borrowed from Anglo-French tendre, going back to Latin tener "soft, delicate (of persons or parts of the body), immature, yielding easily, sensitive," probably by metathesis from *terenos or *terunos, going back to Indo-European, whence also Greek térēn "soft, tender," Sanskrit taruṇa- "young, tender, fresh," Avestan tauruna- "young," (as noun) "boy";

      * Note : Macrobius (early 5th century), in his Saturnalia, quotes Favorinus (ca. 80-160 a.d.) as claiming that terenus meant mollis ("soft") in Sabine; this form would support the hypothesis of metathesis in Latin tener. Ernout and Meillet (Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine, 4th edition, Paris, 1979) reject this etymology without comment, citing instead a possible connection with the ten- of tenēre, tendere, tenuis (see: {tenant:1|tenant:1}, {tender:3|tender:3}, {thin:1|thin:1}).;

    [Adjective]  | "tender" 


    1: easily injured without careful handling;


      * e.g., " ... a tender wound "





    2: feeling or showing love;


      * e.g., " ... a tender embrace between father and daughter "





    3: having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others;


      * e.g., " ... an especially tender teacher who loves having kids with special educational needs in her class "





     [ "Tenderly" ]

    1: Tenderly is a type of girl u would love to meet she loves to have fun but can be a bit rude sometimes she’s super smart and creative she’s soooo good drawing u can’t compete with her everybody knows tenderly everyone wants to be her friend if u meet a tenderly bet you she would know all the teachers in the school

      * e.g.,  ... Did u know Michael has a crush on tenderly Everybody knows tenderly Bet u every teacher in this school knows tenderly 

     [ "tenderly on the rocks" ]

    1: it sounds like some sort of alcoholic drink. however, it is a random name of a dreamed up book by mcb in her late middle school years. the book is rumored to be in progress. about hamster armies being in charge of every natural disaster within the past 10 years. i think boys play a large part in it. kevin riggle to matt lemieux to tom fuller. if it ever gets published. or even drafted. it will be a wonderful book to read. inspired in part by the song WAITING FOR YOU. and shelby hanson.

      * e.g.,  ... tenderly on the rocks is the name of a book 

     [ "Tenderly" ]

    1: sh*t girl, she always saying about transexuals boy's and she very pretty and sexy

      * e.g.,  ... tenderly 


     [ "Tenderly" ]

    2: tenderly for idiots

      * e.g.,  ... guild 

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