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Meaning of lene | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈliːn

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Bosanski lene
Hrvatski lene
Italiano lene
Português lene
Српски lene

Examples

“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 […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

Leneghan Lenehan Leneva Lenexa Leney leng

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