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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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L&S Lewis & Short (1)
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Text provided under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license by the Perseus Digital Library, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Digitized from Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary (1879). Data originally from PerseusDL/lexica and accessed from github.com/nkprasad12/lexica.
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extĕnŭāte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg · pres imperat act 2nd pl

extĕnŭātē: adverbial

• ex-tĕnŭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to make thin, fine, or small, to thin, reduce, diminish (class.; syn.: attenuo, minuo; opp. augeo, amplifico).
  1. I. Lit.: lignum falce, Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 6: aër extenuatus sublime fertur, rarefied, Cic. N. D. 2, 39, 101: dentibus extenuatur et molitur cibus, id. ib. 2, 54, 134: in pulverem extenuari, Plin. 18, 16, 43, § 148: in aquas, Ov. M. 5, 429: mediam aciem, Liv. 5, 38, 2; 31, 21, 14: in Piceno lapidibus pluisse et Caere sortes extenuatas, diminished, id. 21, 62, 5 Drak. (for which, shortly after: attenuatae sortes; cf. also id. 22, 1, 11).—
    1. B. In partic., in medic. lang., to diminish, reduce, weaken, alleviate a disease: pituitam, Cels. 6, 6, 8: destillationes, Plin. 21, 21, 89, § 155: albugines, id. 29, 6, 38, § 127: raucitatem, id. 20, 6, 23, § 50: scabiem, id. 32, 10, 51, § 140 et saep.—
  2. II. Trop., to diminish, lessen, weaken: neque verbis auget suum munus, sed etiam extenuat, Cic. Off. 2, 20, 70: locupletissimi cujusque census extenuarant, tenuissimi auxerant, had made too small, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 55, § 138: spes nostra extenuatur et evanescit, id. Att. 3, 13, 1: quae cogitatio molestias extenuat et diluit, id. Tusc. 3, 16, 34: crimen, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 40, § 108: famam belli, Liv. 5, 37, 3: extenua forti mala corde ferendo, Ov. Tr. 3, 3, 57: curas mora longa, id. P. 1, 3, 26: vires, Hor. S. 1, 10, 14 et saep.—Hence, extĕnŭātus, a, um, P. a., thinned, weakened, weak.
    1. A. Lit.: (copiolae meae) sunt extenuatissimae, very much thinned, reduced, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 13, 2.—
    2. B. Trop.: ratio, Auct. Her. 2, 24, 37.
GAF Gaffiot (1)
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Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire illustré latin-français (1934). Digital data kindly provided by gaffiot.fr.
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extĕnŭāte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg · pres imperat act 2nd pl

extĕnŭātē: adverbial

• extĕnŭō, āvī, ātum, āre, tr.,
1. rendre mince, menu, ténu, amincir : cibus extenuatur Cic. Nat. 2, 134, les aliments sont amenuisés ; mediam aciem Liv. 5, 38, 2, dégarnir le centre de la ligne de bataille
2. affaiblir, rabaisser, diminuer, atténuer : Plin. 21, 155 ; pituitam Cels. Med. 6, 618, arrêter la pituite || [fig.] : spes extenuatur Cic. Att. 3, 13, 1, l'espoir diminue ; molestias Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, atténuer les peines ; famam belli Liv. 5, 37, 3, diminuer l'importance de la guerre.
GES Gesner (1)
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Johann Matthias Gesner, Novus Linguae et Eruditionis Romanae Thesaurus (1749). Transcribed by the team of Dr. Wilhelm Kühlmann from Heidelberg University; accessed via latin-dict.github.io.
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extĕnŭāte: perf part pass masc/neut voc sg · pres imperat act 2nd pl

extĕnŭātē: adverbial

EXTENVO âre. [λεπτύνω, ἰσχναίνω] Imminuere, detrahere, exilius et tenuius aliquid facere: vt, Extenuare in puluerem inutilem Plin. 18, 16. […]
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FOR Forcellini (1)
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Egidio Forcellini, Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Digital entries displayed from lexica.linguax.com, maintained by Godmy. All credit belongs to the respective authors and contributors.
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• extenuate:
      1. 1. lĕvo, 1 (to lighten the guilt of): some e. the guilt of the king, l. quidam regis facinus, Liv. 4, 18: to endeavour to e. the guilt of an accused person, quae apta sunt ad accusatoris criminationem levandam proferre, cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 28, 84.
      2. 2. mītĭgo, 1: to e. a crime, atrocitatem sceleris m., cf. Cic. Off. 1, 12, 37.
      3. 3. mĭnuo, i, ūtum, 3: to deny charges, to defend, to e., objecta negare, defendere, minuere, Quint. 7, 2, 29: cf. id. 7, 4, 15: v. to diminish. Phr.: to e. a crime on the ground of the intention of the accused, [diluendi criminis causa] voluntatem rei defendere, Cic. Inv. 2, 33, 101: to e. a fault, *quae quis deliquerit minora esse demonstrare propter quasdam causas (cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 35). N.B. Extĕnuo., attĕnuo, mostly signify to diminish the importance or value of, opp. to amplifico: cf. Cic. Inv. 2, 25, 75; Auct. Her. 3, 3, 6.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• EXTENUATE
extenuare: attenuare (PROP., to make thin; then to weaken, enfeeble; also to represent anything as less than it is [extenuare, opposed to augere verbis; attenuare, opposed to amplificare]; extenuare crimen, Cic.): elevare (e.g. crimen, Quint.; opposed to premere; also = to use a milder term, a euphemism, as by calling avarice parsimony, Quint.): minuere (opposed to augere, to lessen, culpam, Quint., 7, 4, 15).