The corpus record — Latin

tenacitas

tenacitas · f

a holding fast

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

tĕnācĭtas — Lewis & Short

tĕnācĭtas, ātis, f.tenax,

I a holding fast, tenacity (very rare). *

I In gen.: (animalia) cibum partim unguium tenacitate arripiunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122; Plin. 9, 29, 46, § 86.—

II In partic., a holding fast to money, niggardliness, parsimony, Liv. 34, 7, 4.

In the wild

tenacitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.3.7
tenacitate Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.15.p1
tenacitate Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.122
tenacitatem Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.18
tenacitatis Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 p4
tenacitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.29.p2

6 of 8 attestations shown.

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.