lene

The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).

Noun

  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 […] - 1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence:

Origin

Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.

Forms

lenes

Derived

dagesh lene