tenerrimae
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;
dat. sg. (f.)gen. sg. (f.)nom. pl. (f.)voc. pl. (f.)
Examples
- L
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..." - L
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..." - P
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..."