tenuous

• adj.細長い；薄い；貧しい

ラテン語のtenuisから、細長い、薄い、細かい、PIE*tenから、展開する、語源的にはextendから、薄い、減衰する。

tenuous

tenuous: [16] Tenuous comes from the same ultimate ancestor as thin. It is an alteration of an earlier and now defunct tenuious, which was adapted from Latin tenuis ‘thin’. And this went back to the Indo-European base *ten- ‘stretch’, a variant of which produced English thin.
=> tend, thin

tenuous (adj.)

1590s, "thin, unsubstantial," irregularly formed from Latin tenuis "thin, drawn out, meager, slim, slender," figuratively "trifling, insignificant, poor, low in rank," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch" (cognates: Sanskrit tanuh "thin," literally "stretched out;" see tenet) + -ous. The correct form with respect to the Latin is tenuious. The figurative sense of "having slight importance, not substantial" is found from 1817 in English. Related: Tenuously; tenuousness.

1. This decision puts the President in a somewhat tenuous position.

この決定は大統領の位置を少し揺らしている。

2.a tenuous hold on life

命若遊糸

3.He has a rather tenuous grasp of reality.

彼は現実認識が浅い。

4.The cultural and historical links between the many provinces were seen to be very tenuous .

多くの省間の文化と歴史の絆は脆弱であると考えられている。

5.The historical links between many provinces were seen to be very tenuous .

多くの省の間の歴史的絆は脆弱であると考えられている。