lenes
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pluralof lenis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
lenisadjectivepronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̀¸, z, andzh ) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, andsh ), which are fortis.
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Chief exhorter of the Victoria Char lenes, Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Both pairs were used to express the lenes medially between vowels.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
Men become under its subduing dietary influence, "lenti et lenes."
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
How the so-called aspirates differ from their corresponding lenes has not yet been determined.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
A further peculiarity of Scottish Gaelic is that it substitutes lenes or voiceless mediae for the voiced stops, and even l, r, n sounds show a great tendency to give up the voice.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various