A.sinew, tendon, “ἀπέκοψε τένοντας αὐχενίους” Od.3.449; freq. in dual, “ἄμφω ῥῆξε τένοντε” Il.5.307, al., cf. 4.521, Hes.Sc.419; of the arm, “ἵνα τε ξυνέχουσι τένοντες ἀγκῶνος” Il.20.478; of the foot, “ποδῶν τέτρηνε τένοντε” 22.396, cf. E.Ph.42; τ. ποδός, the outstretched foot, Id.Cyc.400; ὁ τ. ὁ ὀπίσθιος the Achilles tendon, Hp.Fract.11; ὁ τ. ὁ ἐν τῇ κνήμῃ τοῦ ποδός ib.16, cf. Arist.HA515b9; τ. defined as a species of νεῦρον, Gal.2.739, cf. 6.772: abs., for the foot, “πτέρναι τενόντων θ᾽ ὑπογραφαί” A.Ch.209, cf. E.Med.1166, Ba. 938; τένοντα σείων, of a mule, Babr.62.3.
τένων , οντος, ὁ, (τείνω)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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