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Definition of Lenition
1. Noun. (linguistics) A weakening of articulation causing the consonant to become lenis (soft). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lenition
1. a change in articulation [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lenition
Literary usage of Lenition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ériu by School of Irish Learning (Dublin), Royal Irish Academy (1907)
"In Old Irish this lenition is absent. According to the peculiarities of the O.
... The appearance of lenition in the Middle Irish verb, where in Old Irish ..."
2. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"According to Pedersen, §§ 300 and 303, the beginnings of lenition reach back to
about 800 BC, and the phenomena were originally identical in both the Gaelic ..."
3. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"Therefore, it is necessary to hold that the process of lenition evidenced in the
latter tongues must also have affected the continental languages before ..."
4. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, with Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"Y. 205. must be specially denied by plea, or will be (ft) 2 B. ä P. 265; 1 NR
172; 4 East, the const lenition stated in special assumpsit declaration on a ..."
5. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1912)
"Combustion of the charge (which includes its lenition and expansion). Exhaustion of
the products of combustion. Each of these four operations occupies the ..."
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