tantus

From tam.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtan.tus/, [ˈtan.tʊs]

tantus (feminine tanta, neuter tantum); first/second declension

1. of such size
2. so much, so great

• Being naturally adjective, tantus was then used substantively as tantum (frequently with genitive) to mean "so much of", "so many of"; as tantī (pretiī) to mean "so high (a price)"; adverbially as tantum to mean "so much", "to such degree" (cf. tam); as tantō to mean "by so much". For all these quantus has its coordinate functions.

First/second declension.

• quantus

• tantus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tantus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tantus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
    
  • under such unfavourable circumstances: in tanta rerum (temporum) iniquitate
    
  • he had such an extraordinary memory that..: memoria tanta fuit, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) this much is certain: hoc (not tantum) certum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
    
  • (ambiguous) I will only say this much..: tantum or unum illud or hoc dico