tenuis

American  

[ten-yoo-is] / ˈtɛn ju ɪs /

noun

• tenues
  plural

1. an unaspirated, voiceless plosive.

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tenuis British  

/ ˈtɛnjʊɪs /

noun

1. (in the grammar of classical Greek) any of the voiceless stops as represented by kappa, pi, or tau (k, p, t)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tenues
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tenuis

1640–50; < Latin: thin, fine, slender; akin to thin

Example Sentences

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tenuis tenues

Both S. g. saxatilis and S. g. tenuis are "poorly" differentiated from S. g. gracilis and from each other.

From Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and Carnivores by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Differs from M. aetites and M. stanneus in gills not having a decurrent tooth and not connected by veins. tenuis, Bolton.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

The change of the tenuis to the media, or a radical media to an aspirate, we call the second state.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

According to it every tenuis in Latin is in Gothic represented by its corresponding aspirate.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

The change from the media to the tenuis we call the fourth state. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

The mutations seem to have started in the second half of the 6th century in the case of the tenues.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Archives du Muséum; i.e., the Procès verbaux des Séances tenues par les Officiers du Jardin des Plantes, from 1790 to 1830, bound in vellum, in thirty-four volumes.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

Those called mediae by the writers on Greek grammar, viz., b, d, g, approach nearer in force to the corresponding tenues p, t, c, than they do in English.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart

As a rule the medial mutation of the tenues and mediae is not denoted in O. Welsh.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

It is not until much later times that the h in the mutated forms of the tenues, or the use of the dot, was extended to the mediae.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various