The corpus record — Latin

teneritas

teneritas · f

softness

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Where it lives

De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De Anima 2 · 0.84/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

tĕnĕrĭtas — Lewis & Short

tĕnĕrĭtas, ātis, f.id.,

I softness, tenderness.

I Lit.: uvarum, Plin. 15, 24, 29, § 100: brassicae, id. 19, 8, 41, § 141: gemmae, id. 37, 7, 28, § 101: hujus jecori teneritas nulla praefertur, id. 9, 42, 67, § 143.—

II Trop.: in primo ortu (rerum) inest teneritas et mollities quaedam, * Cic. Fin. 5, 21, 58 aetatis, Vitr. 4, 1 med.: teneritas Corinthiorum (opp. severus mos Doricorum), id. 1, 2 med.

In the wild

Teneritas Tertullian, De Anima 17
teneritas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.16.p2
teneritatem Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.2.5
teneritatem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.7.p3
teneritatem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.11.p5
teneritatem Vitruvius, De Architectura 4.1.8.p2

6 of 20 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.