Tension is used in English to mean voltage sometimes too!
The most common place I can think of is in the HT (High Tension) leads leading to a car's spark plugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tension_leads
The most common place I can think of is in the HT (High Tension) leads leading to a car's spark plugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tension_leads
German has this too: voltage = Spannung = tension.
This must go right back to the earliest writings on voltage as a concept.