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
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..."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..."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..."