English
tendron
Tendron comes from Middle French tendron.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tendron
- Englishearliest quotation 1601tendron
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tendron
- Englishearliest quotation 1601tendron
Earliest quotation: 1601, Caius Plinius Secundus [i.e., [Book II.]: “So soon as new buds and tendrons appeare aboue…”
Every English word from Middle French tendron
Today it means
noun A young, tender plant shoot; a bud.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French tendron / tendron