lene
English
Etymology
Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.
Noun
lene (plural lenes)
- (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
- (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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Anagrams
- Leen, Neel, elne
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːnə
Verb
lene
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lenen
Anagrams
- leen
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
lene m or f (plural lenes)
- (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
- 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.
- Synonyms: maino, suave
- c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 280:
References
- “lem” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “lene” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “lene” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “lene” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin lēnis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.ne/
- Rhymes: -ɛne
- Hyphenation: lè‧ne
Adjective
lene (plural leni) (literary)
- mild, gentle, soft
- Synonyms: delicato, lieve, mite, soave
- Antonyms: aspro, brusco, forte, greve, pesante
- (poetic) smooth
- (phonetics) lenis
Derived terms
- lenemente
Related terms
- lenità
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈle.ne/, /ˈlɛ.ne/[1]
- Rhymes: -ene, -ɛne
- Hyphenation: lé‧ne, lè‧ne
Noun
lene f pl
- plural of lena
References
- lena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
Etymology 1
From lēnis.
Adverb
lēne (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)
- softly, gently
- Synonym: lēniter
Related terms
- lēnīmen
- lēnīmentum
- lēniō
- lēnis
- lēnitās
- lēniter
- lēnitūdō
Adjective
lēne
- nominative/vocative/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
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)
- to lean
Derived terms
- armlene (of noun)
References
- “lene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- lena
Etymology
From German lehnen.
Verb
lene
- to lean
Derived terms
- armlene (of noun)
References
- “lene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin lēnis. (The expected native form would be *lem from Old Portuguese lẽe.)
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈlẽ.ni/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈle.ne/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.n(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: le‧ne
Adjective
lene m or f (plural lenes)
- smooth, mild, gentle, soft
- Synonyms: brando, suave
Related terms
- leniente
- leniência
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic лѣнь (lěnĭ), from Proto-Slavic *lěnь. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijénōst, Russian лень (lenʹ), Polish leń. Cf also Aromanian leani.
Noun
lene f (uncountable)
- laziness, sloth, idleness, indolence
- Synonyms: indolență, trândăvie, lâncezeală, delăsare
Declension
singular | ||
---|---|---|
f gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (o) lene | lenea |
genitive/dative | (unei) lene | lenei |
vocative | lene, leneo |
Derived terms
- alene
- leneș
Spanish
Adjective
lene (plural lenes)
- (obsolete) soft
- (obsolete) sweet
- (obsolete) light
Further reading
- “lene”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Adjective
lene
- absolute definite natural masculine singular of len.
Anagrams
- elen