slender Copy link Outline 1. grăcĭlis, e (usu. of living bodies)2. exīlis, e (extremely thin and spare3. tĕnuis, e • slender: 1. grăcĭlis, e (usu. of living bodies): rarely, grăcĭlus (Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 22, gracilae virgines): Hor. Od. 1, 5, 1: with very s. legs, gracillimis cruribus, Suet. Ner. 51. Very s., praegracilis, Tac.: pergracilis, Plin. 2. exīlis, e (extremely thin and spare: never a term of praise): v. thin. 3. tĕnuis, e: to hang by a s. thread (fig.), t. pendere filo, Ov. Pont. 4, 3, 35: v. thin. In fig. sense: s. hope, tenuis spes, Cic. R. Com. 14, 43: people of s. means, tenuiores, Cic. Leg. 3, 13, 40. Phr.: s. means, angustiae, tenuitas, Cic. fil. Fam. 16, 21: v. slenderness. For fig. sense, v. small, scanty. (N.B.--Teres is well-rounded, not slender.)
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.