tenerrima
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tener, tenera -um, tenerior -or -us, tenerrimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tender (age/food); soft/delicate/gentle; young/immature; weak/fragile/frail;
abl. sg. (f.)acc. pl. (n.)nom. sg. (f.)nom. pl. (n.)voc. sg. (f.)voc. pl. (n.)
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...perditis quoque et ad omne dedecus expositis tenerrima est oculorum uerecundia. Ille, quasi parum esset inaudita et incognita..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...humanoque ignota uestigio regio; 3. sustinebant famem primo tenerrima frondium et cacumina arborum, tum coria igne mollita..."Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Creta negare potest. Ipsa novas frondes et prata tenerrima tauro Fertur inadsueta subsecuisse manu. It comes armentis..."