The corpus record — Latin

tenellulus

somewhat tender

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k

What it meant

tĕnellŭlus — Lewis & Short

tĕnellŭlus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [tenellus], somewhat tender or delicate (perh. only in the two following passages): puella tenellulo delicatior haedo, Cat. 17, 15: manu lascivulā et tenellulā, Laev. ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.

In the wild

tenellulo Catullus, Carmina lyrics.17.15

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.