tenues

tenues is a Latin form of tenuis, meaning “thin, slender, fine; slight, weak, poor; simple”. It is the accusative plural feminine adjective or accusative plural masculine adjective or 2nd person singular present active subjunctive.

It can also be a form of tenuo, “make thin, reduce, weaken”.

Found 110 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.167: homines tenues, obscuro loco nati, navigant, adeunt ad ea loca quae numquam antea viderunt, ubi neque noti esse iis quo vene …

Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.179: inmisit caelo. Tenues volat illa per auras

All forms of tenuis (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.