tenuat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tenuo, tenuare, tenuavi, tenuatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
make thin; reduce, lessen; wear down;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...opus tamen suum facit et densa diducit ac tenuat; propterea loca, quae aliqua iniquitate naturae ita clausa sunt..."
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...labens, miserae nunc robora siluae atterit et uastas tenuat complexibus ornos; saepe super fluuios geminae iacet aggere ripae..."