tuentur

tuentur

1. third-person plural present active indicative of tueor
   • 1772, Finnur Jónsson, chapter 1, in Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ [The Ecclesiastical History of Iceland]‎^[1], volume 1, Copenhagen: Orphanotrophius Regii, section 2, page 2:

     Qvi negativam tuentur ſententiam, hoc præſertim nituntur argumento, qvod Thule antiqviſſimis ſcriptoribus nota fuerit; Islandia vero a Norvegis, ſeculo demum nono inventa ſit & habitari cœperit.

     [quī negātīvam tuentur sententiam, hoc praesertim nītuntur argūmentō, quod Thūlē antīquissimīs scrīptōribus nota fuerit; Īslandia vērō ā Norvegīs, sēculō dēmum nōnō inventa sit & habitārī coeperit.]

     Those who uphold the negative opinion rely especially on this argument: that Thule was known to the most ancient writers, whereas Iceland was finally discovered and began to be inhabited by Norwegians only in the ninth century.