tenuitas

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

tenuitās ātis, f

tenuis, thinness, slenderness, fineness, smallness, tenuity : tanta ut fugiat aciem: tenuitas ipsa, slimness : crurum, Ph.— Smallness, insignificance, poverty, indigence, scarcity : hominis earum rerum, quas terra procreet.—Fig., of language, simplicity, plainness : rerum et verborum.