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tenuis en · ADJ
Pronunciation
/ˈtɛnuːɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈtɛnjuɪs/ (General-American)
/ˈtɛnjuːɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈtɛnuɪs/ (General-American)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tenuis (“thin, fine; weak”). Doublet of thin.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t],
(not-comparable) 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.).
The superscript equal sign ˭ is here used to denote the Czech tenuis consonant, in this case the plosive [t˭], which lacks aspiration, in order to contrast it with its aspirated counterpart in English [tʰ]. 2016, Malá & Šaffková, editor, ELT Revisited, page 11:
tenuis en · NOUN
Pronunciation
/ˈtɛnuːɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈtɛnjuɪs/ (General-American)
/ˈtɛnjuːɪs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈtɛnuɪs/ (General-American)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tenuis (“thin, fine; weak”). Doublet of thin.
Meanings
A tenuis consonant.
The tenuis becomes aspirate in Low-German. 1887, Max Müller, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
Since the explosive was a tenuis before a consonant we have -p m- and -t n-; these combinations were mutated to mh and nh in the following examples, the voicelessness of the tenuis being retained after its assimilation 1913, John Morris-Jones, A Welsh grammar, page 184: