I.a diminishing, lessening (only in the two foll. exs.): attenuatio suspitionis, Auct. ad Her. 2, 2: “verborum attenuatio,” simplicity, id. ib. 4, 11; cf. attenuatus.
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attĕnŭātĭo (adt- ), ōnis, f. attenuo,