In describing the couching of cataract Celsus says: Tum acus admovenda est, acuta ut foret sed non nimium tenuis (VII.
In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria=--Slight is the subject of my work, but not the glory.
According to it every tenuis in Latin is in Gothic represented by its corresponding aspirate.
But fiend is a participle from a root fian, to hate; in Gothic fijan; and as a Gothic aspirate always corresponds to a tenuis in Sanskrit, the same root in Sanskrit would at once lose its expressive power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tenuis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
