tenuious
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Tenuious — Te*nu i*ous, a. [See {Tenuous}.] Rare or subtile; tenuous; opposed to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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tenuous — 1590s, irregularly formed from L. tenuis thin, from PIE root *ten to stretch (Cf. Skt. tanuh thin, lit. stretched out; see TENET (Cf. tenet)) + ous. The correct form with respect to the Latin is TENUIOUS (Cf. tenuious). The sense of having slight … Etymology dictionary
tenuous — [16] Tenuous comes from the same ultimate ancestor as thin. It is an alteration of an earlier and now defunct tenuious, which was adapted from Latin tenuis ‘thin’. And this went back to the Indo European base *ten ‘stretch’, a variant of which… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
tenuous — [16] Tenuous comes from the same ultimate ancestor as thin. It is an alteration of an earlier and now defunct tenuious, which was adapted from Latin tenuis ‘thin’. And this went back to the Indo European base *ten ‘stretch’, a variant of which… … Word origins
