lenis
Americanadjective
noun
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lenes
plural
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of lenis
First recorded in 1925–30; from Latin: “soft, mild, gentle”
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Large size is the distinctive feature of Thomomys bottae lenis.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
Remarks.—Twenty-one animals obtained from Lynndyl, Millard County, are all intergrades between lenis and aureiventris.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
They are exceeded in total length only by T. b. lenis and are approached by T. b. aureiventris and T. b. planirostris.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
The modern Cubans pronounce it like the English w with the spiritus lenis.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton
For more than sixty years, at least, this court had felt this authority—potens et lenis dominatio—in the presence of the two celebrated Chief-Justices who filled out this long service.
From Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the Alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover by William Maxwell Evarts
Chief exhorter of the Victoria Char lenes, Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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