tenuitas

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Latin

Etymology

From tenuis +‎ -tās.

Noun

tenuitās f (genitive tenuitātis); third declension

  1. thinness, fineness, delicateness
  2. poverty
  3. frugality

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tenuitās tenuitātēs
genitive tenuitātis tenuitātum
dative tenuitātī tenuitātibus
accusative tenuitātem tenuitātēs
ablative tenuitāte tenuitātibus
vocative tenuitās tenuitātēs

Descendants

References

  • tenuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tenuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tenuitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tenuitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.