The corpus record — Latin

tenacia

tenacia · f

stubbornness

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Annales 1 · 0.11/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

tĕnācĭa — Lewis & Short

tĕnācĭa, ae, f.tenax, II. B.,

I stubbornness, obstinacy: equorum, Enn. ap. Non. 407, 23 (Trag. v. 220 Vahl.).

In the wild

tenacia Ovid, Ex Ponto 1.2.61
tenacia Vergil, Georgicon 4.57
tenacia Tacitus, Annales 1.p64
tenacia Vergil, Georgicon 4.412
tenacia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.5.p2
tenacia Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.676

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.