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lene

  • /ˈliːn/

Sounds like lean

Where it comes from

Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.

noun 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 […]

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"lene." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lene. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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lene. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lene

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"lene." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lene.

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@misc{lene_2026,
  title = {lene},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lene},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}