lene

See also: Lene and Léne

English

Noun

lene (plural lenes)

1. (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
2. (phonetics) Any of the lene consonants, such as Greek pi, kappa, 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 […]

Anagrams

• Leen, Neel, elne

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːnə

Verb

lene

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lenen

Anagrams

• leen

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Galician

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛne̝/

Adjective

1. (literary) mild, gentle, soft
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), 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

   Synonyms: maino, suave

References

• “lem” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
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• “lene” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ne/, [ˈl̺ɛːn̺e]
• Rhymes: -ɛne
• Hyphenation: lè‧ne

Etymology

From Latin lēnis, lēnem.

Adjective

(literary)

1. mild, gentle, soft

   Synonyms: delicato, lieve, mite, soave

   Antonyms: aspro, brusco, forte, greve, pesante

2. (poetic) smooth
3. (phonetics) lenis

Derived terms

• lenemente

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.ne/, [ˈl̺eːn̺e]
• Rhymes: -ene
• Hyphenation: lé‧ne

Noun

1. plural of lena

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Latin

Etymology 1

From lēnis.

Adverb

lēne (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)

1. softly, gently

   Synonym: lēniter

Related terms

• lēnis
• lēniter
• lēnitās
• lēnitūdō
• lēniō
• lēnīmen
• lēnīmentum

 

Etymology 2

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) lēne

1. nominative singular neuter of lēnis
2. vocative singular neuter of lēnis
3. accusative singular neuter of lēnis

References

• “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.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German lehnen

Verb

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

1. to lean

Derived terms

• armlene (of noun)

References

• “lene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• lena

Etymology

From German lehnen

Verb

lene

1. to lean

Derived terms

• armlene (of noun)

References

• “lene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin lēnis, lēnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.ni/
• Hyphenation: le‧ne

Adjective

1. smooth, mild, gentle, soft

   Synonyms: brando, suave

Related terms

• leniente
• leniência

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Romanian

Etymology

From Slavic *lěnь. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijénōst, Russian лень (lenʹ), Polish leń. Cf also Aromanian leani.

Noun

lene f (uncountable)

1. laziness, sloth, idleness, indolence

   Synonyms: indolență, trândăvie, lâncezeală, delăsare

Derived terms

• alene
• leneș

 

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Swedish

Adjective

lene

1. (deprecated template usage) definite natural masculine singular of len

Anagrams

• elen