SLENDER Copy link • SLENDERThin and long, procerus (tall; opposed to brevis): gracilis (thin; opposed to obesus): tenuis (thin). (The words are found in this connection and order.) procerus et tenuis (e.g., collum, neck: ☞ teretibus membris, in Suet., Caes., 45, is said of a well-proportioned stature or shape). Slight, parvus (small, not grown up): paullus: paullulus (small; opposed to magnus or multus; e.g., equi hominesque paulluli gracilesque, Liv., 35, 11, 7): pusillus (stunted in its growth, very small): minutus (of the smallest size): humilis (low, not high; of the stature or shape of men, animals, plants): humilis staturae: humili statura (of short size, small in stature): parvulus: infans (quite young): exiguus (inconsiderable, small, short, relative to quantity, number, etc.): macer (lean; opposed to pinguis): strigosus: strigosi corporis (especially of animals, produced by want of food, opposed to obesus): exilis (not full, that has not its usual fulness; e.g., the thigh, etc.; opposed to plenus; then also of no value; e.g., production of an author, speech, etc.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) exilis et macer.