lene

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English

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Etymology

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Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.

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Noun

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lene (plural lenes)

  1. (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
  2. (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

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eːnə

Verb

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lene

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lenen

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Galician

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Etymology

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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).

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lene m or f (plural lenes)

  1. (literary) mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: maino, suave
    • 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

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin lēnis.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ɛne
  • Hyphenation: lè‧ne

Adjective

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lene (plural leni) (literary)

  1. mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: delicato, lieve, mite, soave
    Antonyms: aspro, brusco, forte, greve, pesante
  2. (poetic) smooth
  3. (phonetics) lenis
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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lene f pl

  1. plural of lena

References

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  • lene in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  1. ^ lena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

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Etymology 1

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From lēnis.

Adverb

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lēne (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)

  1. softly, gently
    Synonym: lēniter
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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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lēne

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative singular neuter of lēnis

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From German lehnen.

Verb

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lene (imperative len, present tense lener, passive lenes, simple past lenet or lente, past participle lenet or lent, present participle lenende)

  1. to lean

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From German lehnen.

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lene

  1. to lean

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin lēnis. (The expected native form would be *lem from Old Galician-Portuguese lẽe.)

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  • Hyphenation: le‧ne

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lene m or f (plural lenes)

  1. smooth, mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: brando, suave
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣнь (lěnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *lěnь. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijénōst, Russian лень (lenʹ), Polish leń. Cf also Aromanian leani.

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lene f (uncountable)

  1. laziness, sloth, idleness, indolence
    Synonyms: indolență, trândăvie, lâncezeală, delăsare

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Serbo-Croatian

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Adjective

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lene

  1. inflection of len:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlene/ [ˈle.ne]
  • Rhymes: -ene
  • Syllabification: le‧ne

Adjective

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lene m or f (masculine and feminine plural lenes)

  1. (obsolete) soft
  2. (obsolete) sweet
  3. (obsolete) light

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Swedish

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Adjective

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lene

  1. definite natural masculine singular of len

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