The corpus record — Latin

teneritudo

teneritudo · f

softness

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Where it lives

Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

tĕnĕrĭtūdo — Lewis & Short

tĕnĕrĭtūdo, ĭnis, f.tener,

I softness, tenderness si terra teneritudinem habet, Varr. R. R. 1, 36; casei, Pall. Mai, 9, 2: corticis, id. Jan. 15, 16: pueri primae teneritudinis, of the tenderest age, Suet. Tib. 44.

In the wild

teneritudo Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.9.p2
teneritudine Apuleius, Metamorphoses 5.11.p2
teneritudinis Suetonius, Tiberius 44.1
teneritudine Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 14.1
teneritudinem Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 77.6

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.