tĕnŭĭtas — Lewis & Short
tĕnŭĭtas, ātis. f.tenuis,
I thinness, slenderness, fineness, smallness, tenuity (class.).
I Lit.:
casurusne in conspectum videatur animus, an tanta sit ejus tenuitas, ut fugiat aciem,Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 50:
valetudo modo bona sit, tenuitas ipsa delectat,slimness, id. Brut. 16, 64:
crurum,Phaedr. 1, 12, 6: aëris, rarity (with siccitas), Sen. Q. N. 2, 10, 1:
lini,Plin. 19, 1, 2, § 9:
chartae,id. 13, 12, 24, § 79:
capillamenti,id. 11, 37, 65, § 171:
liniam duxit summae tenuitatis per tabulam,id. 35, 10, 36, § 81:
caudae,id. 8, 33, 51, § 121:
cribri,id. 18, 11, 27, § 105:
aquae,thinness, clearness, purity, id. 31, 3, 23, § 38; cf.
sanguinis,id. 11, 39, 92, § 226 et saep.—
B Transf. (acc. to tenuis, I. B.), smallness, insignificance, poverty, indigence, scarcity:
Magii,Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 265:
alicujus,Cic. Fil. Fam. 16, 21, 4; Caes. B. G. 7, 17:
aerarii,Cic. Off. 2, 21, 74:
earum rerum, quas terra procreet, vel ubertatem vel tenuitatem,id. Div. 2, 13, 30.—
II Trop., fineness, acuteness, minuteness in language:
limata tenuitas et rerum et verborum,Cic. Fin. 3, 12, 40; id. Opt. Gen. Or. 3, 9:
(dialectica) sectas ad tenuitatem suam vires ipsā subtilitate consumet,Quint. 12, 2, 13; 12, 10, 35; 10, 2, 23:
discriminum ac differentiarum tenuitates,fine shades, Gell. 1, 3, 29.