A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Tenuitas,-atis (s.f.III), abl.sg. tenuitate: “thinness, slenderness, fineness, smallness, tenuity; = subtilitas,-atis (s.f.III); smallness, insignificance, poverty, indigence, scarcity; fineness, acuteness, minuteness (in language” (after Lewis & Short); (medical) emaciation; poverty; frugality; - aquae tenuitas, thinness, clearness, purity of the water.

- discriminum ac differentiarum tenuitates, fine shades of distinction and difference.

- tenuitas cutis aetate variabilis, the thinness of the skin variable with age.

- ostiola statura, tenuitate ac directione ludentia aliquoties valde elongata simulque setacea ac flexuosa nobis visa (S&A), ostioles seen by us varying in stature, thinness and direction, at different times strongly elongate and at the same time bristly and flexuose.

- [Lichen fontanus major “the great water liverwort” (Dill.)] laudatur, inquit Cæsalpinus, a Recentioribus ad epatis calidam intemperiem, nam refrigerat & siccat, ac tollit obstructiones ob partium tenuitatem (Dill.), it is recommended, says Caesalpinus, by modern people (authors), for a hot [i.e. inflammed] disorder of the liver, for it cools down [i.e. relieves inflammation] and dries [it] up, and it takes away obstructions due to the thinness [i.e. emaciation] of the parts [i.e. organs].