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Definition of Tenuis
1. n. One of the three surd mutes κ, π, τ; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, γ, β, δ, and their aspirates, χ, φ, θ. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.
Definition of Tenuis
1. Adjective. Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t], [k] ¹
2. Adjective. (linguistics) Of obstruents in other languages, not voiced, aspirated, glottalized, or otherwise different in phonation from the prototypical values of the voiceless IPA letters ([p], [t], [k], [f], [?], [s], [?], etc.). ¹
3. Noun. (linguistics) a tenuis stop ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenuis
1. a voiceless phonetic stop [n -UES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenuis
Literary usage of Tenuis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seaside Studies in Natural History by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Alexander Agassiz (1871)
"(Synapta tenuis AYRES.) THIS is one of the most curious of the Holothurians, and
easily observed on account of its transparency, which allows vis to see its ..."
2. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1870)
"... tenuis. The length of the head is one-seventh of the distance between the
gill-opening and the vent -, body and tail subequal in length. ..."
3. The Commencement Manual: Salutatories, Valedictories, Addresses and by Edith F A U (Palmer) Painton (1915)
"... our class in every individual manifestation the same good old watchword inherent
in every Anglo-Saxon nature, "Forward!" (h) "IN tenuis LABOR" ("There ..."
4. A Handbook of the Cornish Language: Chiefly in Its Latest Stages, with Some by Henry Jenner (1904)
"The change of the tenuis to the media, or a radical media to ap aspirate, we call
the SECOND STATE. Thus, the same words in their second state are Ben, Gar, ..."
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