lenis

/lee-nis, ley-/US // ˈli nɪs, ˈleɪ- //UK // (ˈliːnɪs) phonetics //

莱尼斯

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, are lenis in English, as compared with, which are fortis.Compare fortis.

n.名词 noun

The modern Cubans pronounce it like the English w with the spiritus lenis.
Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: / Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!
In six other characters studied they most closely approach lenis to which they are here referred.
Intergradation with lenis is also shown in some specimens by the widely spreading zygomatic arches.
The latter valley in this area is inhabited by pocket gophers that belong to another subspecies, lenis.