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
- P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..." - P
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..."