tenui
Dictionary entries
- Entry →teneo, tenere, tenui, tentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
hold, keep; comprehend; possess; master; preserve; [tenere memoria => remember];; represent; support;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st - Entry →tenuis, tenue, tenuior -or -us, tenuissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
thin, fine; delicate; slight, slender; little, unimportant; weak, feeble;
abl. sg. (all)dat. sg. (all)
Examples
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...umeris, dives quae munera Dido fecerat, et tenui telas discreverat auro. continuo invadit: 'tu nunc Karthaginis altae fundamenta..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...humanos, da flammam evadere classi nunc, pater, et tenuis Teucrum res eripe leto. vel tu, quod superest, infesto..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...strictamque aciem venientibus offert, et ni docta comes tenuis sine corpore vitas admoneat volitare cava sub imagine formae..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...superbis urit odoratam nocturna in lumina cedrum arguto tenuis percurrens pectine telas. hinc exaudiri gemitus iraeque leonum vincla..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...populeas inter senior se attollere frondes visus (eum tenuis glauco velabat amictu carbasus, et crinis umbrosa tegebat harundo..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fama mali tanti, sed certior auctor advolat Aeneae tenui discrimine leti esse suos, tempus versis succurrere Teucris. proxima..."Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ipsa suis quondam manibus Sidonia Dido fecerat et tenui telas discreverat auro. harum unam iuveni supremum maestus honorem..."Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...locis neque ab ordine cedunt. verum eadem, verso tenuis cum cardine ventus impulit et teneras turbavit ianua frondes..."