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‖ tenuis Gram. and Phonology.|ˈtɛn(j)uːɪs|
Pl. tenues |ˈtɛn(j)uːiːz|.
[L., = thin, slender, fine: used in Craston's Latin version of Lascaris's Greek Grammar 1480, and in other early Greek grammars, to translate Gr. ψῑλόν ‘bare, smooth’, applied by Aristotle to the consonants κ, τ, π (for which Priscian's term was lēvis smooth), as opposed to the aspiratæ or aspirates (in Gr. δασέα, pl. of δασύ rough, thick).]
One of the Greek letters κ, τ, π, or the corresponding k, t, p of Latin, English, and other languages; esp. the sounds represented by these; also called surds, hard mutes, and by Bell breath stops.[1480Craston Lascaris Erotemata a iij, Mutæ..quarum tenues quidem tres, cappa, pi, taf.] 1650E. Reeve Introd. Gk. Tongue 38 The Tenuis consonant..is changed into his aspirate: as, ἀϕ' ἡµῶν for ἀπὸ ἡµῶν. 1841[see media 1]. 1842Proc. Philol. Soc. I. 7 When the final letter of the verb was one of the tenues..t was substituted. 1887Max Müller in Fortn. Rev. May 705 The tenuis becomes aspirate in Low-German. |