tenable
strong (position)
TRANSLATION
tenable = haltbar, vertretbar, belastbar, tragbar --- GOOGLE INDEX tenable: approximately 4,500,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European authorities must do what is necessary to make policy adjustments politically TENABLE in Greece.
(Washington Post)
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Spohr attributed pressure on the company after a net loss of 13 million euros last year to competition from low-cost airlines and new rivals in the long-haul business and said that meant the existing corporate structure was no longer TENABLE, the newspaper reported.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
(Washington Post)
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Spohr attributed pressure on the company after a net loss of 13 million euros last year to competition from low-cost airlines and new rivals in the long-haul business and said that meant the existing corporate structure was no longer TENABLE, the newspaper reported.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
Did you
know?
tenable
adjective
- able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection
(Oxford Dictionary)
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Tenable stems ultimately from the Latin tenere - to hold, keep - which derives from the Latin tenet, a noun meaning "principle, opinion, or dogma maintained as true by a person, sect or school." It essentially means something that is held to be true. Tenet is still widely used in English today to refer to a principle on which a belief or theory is based.
Both tenable/tenet come from the Proto Indo European (PIE) root "ten," which is not related to the number 10, but from the sense of to stretch, such as in putting tension on something.
The connection between stretch and the modern usage of something that holds simply comes from the idea of maintaining something over a long period of time. Tenet was thus used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine to imply that something - a principle, belief - would "hold up" against an argument or an attack from critics.
The opposite of tenable is untenable and not intenable, although the latter can still be found from time to time. Once used more frequently, intenable is now considered an incorrect form.
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SYNONYMS
arguable, believable, credible, defensible, maintainable, sound, strong, viable
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Your strategy will be approved only if it is tenable."
adjective
- able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection
(Oxford Dictionary)
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Tenable stems ultimately from the Latin tenere - to hold, keep - which derives from the Latin tenet, a noun meaning "principle, opinion, or dogma maintained as true by a person, sect or school." It essentially means something that is held to be true. Tenet is still widely used in English today to refer to a principle on which a belief or theory is based.
Both tenable/tenet come from the Proto Indo European (PIE) root "ten," which is not related to the number 10, but from the sense of to stretch, such as in putting tension on something.
The connection between stretch and the modern usage of something that holds simply comes from the idea of maintaining something over a long period of time. Tenet was thus used in Medieval Latin to introduce a statement of doctrine to imply that something - a principle, belief - would "hold up" against an argument or an attack from critics.
The opposite of tenable is untenable and not intenable, although the latter can still be found from time to time. Once used more frequently, intenable is now considered an incorrect form.
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SYNONYMS
arguable, believable, credible, defensible, maintainable, sound, strong, viable
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Your strategy will be approved only if it is tenable."
