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Unadapted borrowing from Latin tenuis (“thin, fine; weak”). Doublet of thin.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛnjuːɪs/, /ˈtɛnuːɪs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛnjuɪs/, /ˈtɛnuɪs/
tenuis (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t], [k]
- (linguistics) Of obstruents in other languages, not voiced, aspirated, glottalized, or otherwise different in phonation from the prototypical values of the voiceless IPA letters ([p], [t], [k], [f], [θ], [s], [ʃ], etc.).
2016, Malá & Šaffková, editor, ELT Revisited, page 11:
The superscript equal sign ˭ is here used to denote the Czech tenuis consonant, in this case the plosive [t˭], which lacks aspiration, in order to contrast it with its aspirated counterpart in English [tʰ].
tenuis (plural tenues)
- (linguistics) A tenuis consonant.
1887, Max Müller, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
The tenuis becomes aspirate in Low-German.
1913, John Morris-Jones, A Welsh grammar, page 184:
Since the explosive was a tenuis before a consonant we have -p m- and -t n-; these combinations were mutated to mh and nh in the following examples, the voicelessness of the tenuis being retained after its assimilation
Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”).[1][2][3] Original u-stem adjectives are regularly extended into i-stem ones in Latin, compare gravis, brevis, dulcis, etc.
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈte.nu.is/, [ˈt̪ɛnuɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.nu.is/, [ˈt̪ɛːnuis]
tenuis (neuter tenue, comparative tenuior, superlative tenuissimus, adverb tenuiter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- thin, fine, slender
- weak, feeble, tenuous
- slight, trifling
- delicate, subtle, watery
- (transferred sense) phantom
- nunc animae tenuēs et corpora fūncta sepulcrīs errant
- Now phantom spirits wander abroad, and bodies that have been committed to the tombs
1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. Henry T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 71-72.
- Now phantom spirits wander abroad, and bodies that have been committed to the tombs
- nunc animae tenuēs et corpora fūncta sepulcrīs errant
[1902, George Hempl, “The Duenos Inscription”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 33 (in English), Boston: Ginn & Company, page 163:
The mānēs were the ‘rare ones’ or the ‘thin ones,’ the ‘spirits’ or ‘shades’ of the dead, otherwise known as animae tenuēs and umbrae tenuēs.]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
- tenue
- tenuistīpitātus (Medieval Latin)
- tenuitās
- tenuiter
- tenuō
- Catalan: tènue
- French: ténu
- Italian: tenue
- Sicilian: tènui
- Spanish: tenue
- Walloon: tene
- → English: tenuis; →⇒ tenuious, tenuous
- → English: tenuis
- → German: Tenuis
- → Portuguese: ténue, tênue (Brazil)
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “tenuis”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 666
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “tenu-s”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1069
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “tenuis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 613f.
- “tenuis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tenuis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tenuis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)
- meagre diet: victus tenuis (Fin. 2. 28. 90)
- little money: pecunia exigua or tenuis
- elevated, moderate, plain style: genus dicendi grave or grande, medium, tenue (cf. Or. 5. 20; 6. 21)