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lenitions

lenitions is the plural of lenition.

Meaning of lenition

Noun

lenition (countable and uncountable, plural lenitions)

  1. A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft).
    • One of these processes, the process of T-Lenition, is extremely common, even though it takes place only when the input consonant is adjacent to a small number of affixes. In this change, a stopped consonant, [p t k b d g], becomes a fricative, [s, z, š, ž]. This process is called lenition, or...2001, Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova, English Words: History and Structure, page 104
    Antonyms:
    fortition

Questions about lenitions

What is lenitions the plural of?
Lenitions is the plural of lenition.

Words near lenitions in the dictionary

  1. lenited
  2. lenites
  3. lenities
  4. leniting
  5. lenition
  6. lenitions
  7. lenitive
  8. lenitively
  9. lenitiveness
  10. lenitives
  11. lenitude

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