1. (adj.) thin, tender, small, slender Vv.16#2 (vara graceful = uttamarūpa-dhara Vv-a.79; perhaps to 2) Pv-a.46 (of hair: fine + mudhu).
2. (n. nt.) body (orig. slender part of the body = waist) Vv.53#7 (kañcana˚); Pv.i.12#1; Vism.79 (uju +). Cp. tanutara.

• -karaṇa making thinner, reducing, diminishing Vin.ii.316 (Bdhgh on CV. v.9, 2);
• -bhāva decrease Pp.17;
• -bhūta decreased, diminished Pp.17; esp in phrase ˚soka with diminished grief, having one’s grief allayed Dhp-a.iii.176; Pv-a.38.

Vedic tanu, f. tanvī; also n. tanu & tanū (f.) body; *ten (see tanoti) = Gr. τανυ-, Lat. tenuis, Ohg. dunni, E thin