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tenera

tenera is a Latin form of tener, meaning “tender, soft; young”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective.

Found 78 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Amicitia 48: … qui virtutem duram et quasi ferream esse quandam volunt; quae quidem est cum multis in rebus tum in amicitia tenera atque tractabilis, ut et bonis amici quasi diffundatur et incommodis contrahatur. quam ob rem angor iste, qui …

All forms of tener (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.