tenuissimus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tenuis, tenue, tenuior -or -us, tenuissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
thin, fine; delicate; slight, slender; little, unimportant; weak, feeble;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...atque illo circumagitur aliaque deicit, alia intercidit, cum tenuissimus idemque fortissimus et irrepat quamuis in obstructa et quicquid..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quae in his fuit conflata reperitur, quia ignis tenuissimus per foramina occulta transcurrit, quicquid autem in tigno solidum..." - P
Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...abit, dempto quoque pondere rursus in superos aer tenuissimus emicat ignes; inde retro redeunt, idemque retexitur ordo. ignis..."