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Lene

//ˈliːn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
  2. 2
    A voiceless, or unaspirated, stopped consonant, such as Greek pi, kappa, or tau.

    "When in a crasis, a lene consonant […] is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate […]"

Etymology

Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.

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