extenuo
Latin
Etymology
From ex- (intensifying prefix) + tenuō (“to enfeeble, weaken, wear down; to lessen, reduce; to make thin”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛkˈstɛ.nu.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ekˈst̪ɛː.nu.o]
Verb
extenuō (present infinitive extenuāre, perfect active extenuāvī, supine extenuātum); first conjugation
Conjugation
Conjugation of extenuō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
- extenuātiō
- extenuātōrius
- extenuātus
Descendants
- →? Albanian: shtërras
- Asturian: estenar
- Galician: estear
- → English: extenuate
- → French: exténuer
- → Italian: estenuare
- → Portuguese: extenuar
- → Romanian: extenua
- → Spanish: extenuar
References
- “extenuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “extenuo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- extenuo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lend lustre to a subject by one's description: dicendo augere, amplificare aliquid (opp. dicendo extenuare aliquid)
- hope is vanishing by degrees: spes extenuatur et evanescit
- to lend lustre to a subject by one's description: dicendo augere, amplificare aliquid (opp. dicendo extenuare aliquid)
Portuguese
Verb
extenuo
- first-person singular present indicative of extenuar