lene
English edit
Etymology edit
Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.
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Noun edit
lene (plural lenes)
- (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
- (phonetics) A voiceless, or unaspirated, stopped consonant, such as Greek pi, kappa, or tau.
- 1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence:
- 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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Dutch edit
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lene
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Galician edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin lēnis, in substitution of the inherited form len (attested 13th century) which is preserved in the adverbial phrase ao len (“out in the open”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
lene m or f (plural lenes)
- (literary) mild, gentle, soft
- c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:
- Madre, sabes tu que Esau, meu yrmão he veloso et eu nõ, mays som lem, et se meu padre me apalpar et souber que sóóm eu, medo ey que coyde queo quis [excarnesçer], et em lugar de bendiçõ ey medo que me maldiga.
- Mother, you know that Esau, my brother, is hairy, but not me, I'm hairless; and if my father would touch me and find that it's me, I fear that he would think that I was mocking him, and instead of his blessing I would have his curse
References edit
- “lem” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “lene” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “lene” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “lene” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
lene f pl
References edit
- lene in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ lena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From lēnis.
Adverb edit
lēne (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)
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Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
lēne
References edit
- “lene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lene”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lene in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
lene (imperative len, present tense lener, passive lenes, simple past lenet or lente, past participle lenet or lent, present participle lenende)
- to lean
Derived terms edit
- armlene (of noun)
References edit
- “lene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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lene
- to lean
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- armlene (of noun)
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- “lene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin lēnis. (The expected native form would be *lem from Old Galician-Portuguese lẽe.)
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: le‧ne
Adjective edit
lene m or f (plural lenes)
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣнь (lěnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *lěnь. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijénōst, Russian лень (lenʹ), Polish leń. Cf also Aromanian leani.
Noun edit
lene f (uncountable)
Declension edit
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Serbo-Croatian edit
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lene
- inflection of len:
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
lene m or f (masculine and feminine plural lenes)
Further reading edit
- “lene”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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lene