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Latin
Etymology
From tenuis (“fine, slender, thin; feeble, weak; slight, trifling; delicate, subtle, watery; (by extension) phantom”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
Pronunciation
Verb
tenuō (present infinitive tenuāre, perfect active tenuāvī, supine tenuātum); first conjugation
- to make thin
- to reduce or lessen
- Synonyms: diminuō, imminuō, minuō, dēminuō, premō, corripiō
- Antonyms: augeō, amplificō, extendō, accumulō, cumulō, multiplicō
- to wear down, weaken, enfeeble
- Synonyms: dēterō, atterō, effēminō, minuō, frangō, cōnsūmō, afficiō
- Antonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, sistō
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References
- “tenuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tenuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tenuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.