See tenuis in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"sup": "tenuissimus"
},
"expansion": "tenuis (neuter tenue, comparative tenuior, superlative tenuissimus, adverb tenuiter); third-declension two-termination adjective",
"name": "la-adj"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tenuis"
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adj",
"related": [
{
"word": "tener"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"thin, fine, slender"
],
"links": [
[
"thin",
"thin"
],
[
"fine",
"fine"
],
[
"slender",
"slender"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"two-termination"
]
},
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "praevalēns"
},
{
"word": "fortis"
},
{
"word": "potis"
},
{
"word": "potēns"
},
{
"word": "validus"
},
{
"word": "strēnuus"
},
{
"word": "compos"
}
],
"glosses": [
"weak, feeble, tenuous"
],
"links": [
[
"weak",
"weak"
],
[
"feeble",
"feeble"
],
[
"tenuous",
"tenuous"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dēbilis"
},
{
"word": "languidus"
},
{
"word": "aeger"
},
{
"word": "frāctus"
},
{
"word": "fessus"
},
{
"word": "īnfirmus"
},
{
"word": "mollis"
},
{
"word": "obnoxius"
},
{
"word": "inops"
}
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"two-termination"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"slight, trifling"
],
"links": [
[
"slight",
"slight"
],
[
"trifling",
"trifling"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"two-termination"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"delicate, subtle, watery"
],
"links": [
[
"delicate",
"delicate"
],
[
"subtle",
"subtle"
],
[
"watery",
"watery"
]
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"two-termination"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with transferred senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.565–566",
"text": "nunc animae tenuēs et corpora fūncta sepulcrīs errant\nNow phantom spirits wander abroad, and bodies that have been committed to the tombs\n1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. Henry T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 71-72."
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
116,
122
],
[
134,
140
]
],
"ref": "[1902, George Hempl, “The Duenos Inscription”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 33 (in English), Boston: Ginn & Company, page 163:",
"text": "The mānēs were the ‘rare ones’ or the ‘thin ones,’ the ‘spirits’ or ‘shades’ of the dead, otherwise known as animae tenuēs and umbrae tenuēs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"phantom"
],
"links": [
[
"phantom",
"phantom"
]
],
"qualifier": "transferred sense",
"raw_glosses": [
"(transferred sense) phantom"
],
"tags": [
"declension-3",
"two-termination"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈtɛ.nu.ɪs]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈt̪ɛː.nu.is]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "tenuis"
}
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