# Genitive Plural of tenuis

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Is the i in the genitive plural of [tenuis](https://logeion.uchicago.edu/tenuis) a pure i vowel or the semivowel j? My feeling is for pure vowel, but I could not find a discussion anywhere.

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Is this quite the right question? The u is often consonantalized, at any rate in verse (e.g. Lucr.3.232 |tenuis enim …, ib.243 … tenuius exstat|), and then of course the i is a pure vowel, as I imagine it always is.

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**Post date:** [September 1, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/genitive-plural-of-tenuis/31268/3 "2026-09-01T22:55:24Z")

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What about pinguium in [Hor. Carm. 4 . 12 . 5](https://artflsrv03.uchicago.edu/philologic4/Latin/navigate/74/4/12/?byte=408975)?

dīcunt in tenerō grāmine pinguium

According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odes_(Horace)), the poem should be 2nd Asclepiad and the metre of the line  
– – – ᴗ ᴗ – / – ᴗ ᴗ – ᴗ x.

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**Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 12:39am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/genitive-plural-of-tenuis/31268/4 "2026-09-02T00:39:26Z")

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Not quite sure what you’re asking here. Pinguium (gen.pl.) couldn’t scan any other way. pingui- as e.g. sangui- or angui- (long-short), unproblematic, whereas tenui- is properly three shorts, though in verse (where three successive shorts is awkward at best) the u could readily be consonantalized, making it metrically amenable.