lenisとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: lē'nəs, lā'nəs, IPA: /ˈliːnɪs/, /ˈleɪnɪs/
• 韻: -iːnɪs

形容詞

lenis (not comparable)

1. (phonetics, of a consonant) Weakly articulated, hence voiced; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants.

   Synonym: lax

   Antonym: fortis

   • 2004, Stephan Gramley, Michael Pätzold, A Survey of Modern English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 80:

     All vowels, whether short or complex, are relatively shorter when followed by a fortis consonant and relatively longer when followed by a lenis one or, for those where this is possible, when no consonant follows (in free or unchecked syllables).

派生語

• lenition

名詞

lenis (plural lenes)

1. (phonetics) A lenis consonant.

アナグラム

• LINEs, Niles, elsin, liens, lines, lisne

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleː.nis/, [ˈɫ̪eːnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.nis/, [ˈlɛːnis]

形容詞

lēnis (neuter lēne, comparative lēnior, superlative lēnissimus, adverb lēne or lēniter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. soft, smooth, gentle, moderate, mild, calm

   Synonyms: lentus, mītis, placidus, mollis

2. gradual

語形変化

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

派生語

• spīritus lēnis

関連する語

派生した語

• English: lenis, lenient
• Galician: lene, ao len
• Italian: lene
• Occitan: len
• Romanian: lin
• Spanish: lene
• Portuguese: lene

語源 2

Inflected form of lēna (“madame, procuress”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleː.niːs/, [ˈɫ̪eːniːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.nis/, [ˈlɛːnis]

名詞

lēnīs

1. dative/ablative plural of lēna

参照

• “lenis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lenis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lenis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lenis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) a gentle, subdued voice: vox lenis, suppressa, summissa