tenuitas

Latin

Etymology

From tenuis +‎ -tās.

Noun

tenuitās f (genitive tenuitātis); third declension

1. thinness, fineness, delicateness
2. poverty
3. frugality

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tenuitās	tenuitātēs
genitive	tenuitātis	tenuitātum
dative	tenuitātī	tenuitātibus
accusative	tenuitātem	tenuitātēs
ablative	tenuitāte	tenuitātibus
vocative	tenuitās	tenuitātēs

Descendants

• Catalan: tenuïtat
• French: ténuité
• Galician: tenuidade
• Italian: tenuità
• Portuguese: tenuidade
• Spanish: tenuidad

References

• “tenuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tenuitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tenuitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tenuitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.