tenuis English

Meaning tenuis meaning

What does tenuis mean?

tenuis adjective

— (linguistics) Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t], [k]

— (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], [θ], [s], [ʃ], etc.).

tenuis noun

— (linguistics) A tenuis consonant.

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