tenui

tenui is a Latin form of teneo, meaning “hold, keep; understand”.

It can also be a form of tenuis, “thin, slender, fine; slight, weak, poor; simple”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective or ablative singular masculine adjective or 1st person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 215 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.45: … ue subsidia ab lateribus submitti neque equite laborantibus usui esse possent. Ab oppido autem declivis locus tenui fastigio vergebat in longitudinem passuum circiter CCCC. Hac nostris erat receptus, quod eo incitati studio i …

Terence, Phormio prologue.pr.5: Tenui esse oratione et scriptura levi;

Plautus, Cistellaria 4.2.675: quamne ín manibus ténui atque accépi hic ante aédis

All forms of teneo (conjugation 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.