adjective
tĕnellŭlus
Meaning
- somewhat tender
tĕnellŭlus, a, um,
I. adj. dim. [tenellus], somewhat tender or delicate (perh. only in the two following passages):
puella tenellulo delicatior haedo, Cat. 17, 15: manu lascivulā et tenellulā, Laev. ap. Prisc. p. 903 P.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tenellulus adj. dim.
tener, very tender, delicate : haedus, Ct.