tenuis – Latin adjective declension

Latin adjective forms of tenuis

Adjective: tenuis
Hyphenation:
Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular masc.tenuis
Singular fem.tenuis
Singular neut.tenue
Plural masc.tenuēs
Plural fem.tenuēs
Plural neut.tenuïa

Genitive

Singular masc.tenuis
Singular fem.tenuis
Singular neut.tenuis
Plural masc.tenuïum
Plural fem.tenuïum
Plural neut.tenuïum

Dative

Singular masc.tenuī
Singular fem.tenuī
Singular neut.tenuī
Plural masc.tenuibus
Plural fem.tenuibus
Plural neut.tenuibus

Accusative

Singular masc.tenuem
Singular fem.tenuem
Singular neut.tenue
Plural masc.tenuīs; tenuēs
Plural fem.tenuīs; tenuēs
Plural neut.tenuïa

Ablative

Singular masc.tenuī
Singular fem.tenuī
Singular neut.tenuī
Plural masc.tenuibus
Plural fem.tenuibus
Plural neut.tenuibus

Vocative

Singular masc.tenuis
Singular fem.tenuis
Singular neut.tenue
Plural masc.tenuēs
Plural fem.tenuēs
Plural neut.tenuïa

Comparison

Comparativetenuïor
Superlativetenuissimus

Sample Sentences

  • Ut lea saeva sitim multa conpescuit unda, dum redit in silvas, inventos forte sine ipsa ore cruentato tenues laniavit amictus. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 4.104]
  • Nunc animae tenuēs et corpora fūncta sepulcrīs errant, […] (1851 translation by Henry T. Riley, The Fasti &c of Ovid., London: H. G. Bohn, p. 71-72
  • Now phantom spirits wander abroad, and bodies that have been committed to the tombs, […]) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.565–566]
  • Quod superest, quaecumque premes virgulta per agros,
  • Sparge fimo pingui et multa memor occule terra,
  • Aut lapidem bibulum aut squalentis infode conchas;
  • Inter enim labentur aquae tenuisque subibit
  • Halitus atque animos tollent sata; iamque reperti,
  • Qui saxo super atque ingentis pondere testae
  • Urgerent; hoc effusos munimen ad imbris, (Translation by James B. Greenough
  • For the rest, whate'er
  • The sets thou plantest in thy fields, thereon
  • Strew refuse rich, and with abundant earth
  • Take heed to hide them, and dig in withal
  • Rough shells or porous stone, for therebetween
  • Will water trickle and fine vapour creep,
  • And so the plants their drooping spirits raise.
  • Aye, and there have been, who with weight of stone
  • Or heavy potsherd press them from above;
  • This serves for shield in pelting showers, and this
  • When the hot dog-star chaps the fields with drought.) [c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 2.346–353]
  • Ipse Cicero, cum tenuissima valetudine esset, ne nocturnum quidem sibi tempus ad quietem relinquebat, ut ultro militum concursu ac vocibus sibi parcere cogeretur. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 5.40]
  • Bidis oppidum est tenue sane, non longe a Syracusis. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.2.53]
  • 'Infinita' inquit 'praecepta sunt.' Falsum est; nam de maximis ac necessariis rebus non sunt infinita; tenues autem differentias habent quas exigunt tempora, loca, personae, sed his quoque dantur praecepta generalia. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium Liber XIV - XV.XCIV.35]

Adjectives inflected like tenuis

tenuis,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ten-der.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *tenh₂-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-us
5. Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us
6. Proto-Italic *tən(a)us
7. Latin tenuis
8. From Proto-Italic *tən(a)us, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”). Original u-stem adjectives are regularly extended into i-stems in Latin, compare gravis, brevis, dulcis, etc.

Verbs referencing "tenuis"

English Adjectives thin, Irish Adjectives tanaí, French Adjectives ténu, Catalan Adjectives tènue.

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