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lenes

lenes is the plural of lene.

lenes is the plural of lenis.

Meaning of lene

Noun

lene (plural lenes)

  1. The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
  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 […]1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence

Meaning of lenis

Noun

lenis (plural lenes)

  1. A lenis consonant.

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Phrases with lenes

Questions about lenes

What is lenes the plural of?
Lenes is the plural of lene.

Words near lenes in the dictionary

  1. lene
  2. Leneghan
  3. Leneghans
  4. Lenehan
  5. Lenehans
  6. lenes
  7. Leneva
  8. Lenexa
  9. Leney
  10. leng
  11. leng zai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lenes (page history and authors); lene (page history and authors); lenis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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