lene

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

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eːnə

Verb

lene

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of lenen

Anagrams

• leen

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, f (plural lenes)

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.
• “lene” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lene” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “lene” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology

From Latin lēnis, lēnem.

Adjective

lene (masculine and feminine plural leni)

1. mild, gentle, soft
2. light

Synonyms

• delicato
• lieve

Noun

lene f

1. plural of lena

Etymology

From lēnis.

Adverb

lēne

1. softly, gently

   Synonym: lēniter

Adjective

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

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

References

• “lene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Alternative forms

• lena

Etymology

From German lehnen

Verb

lene

1. to lean

References

• “lene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From Slavic lĕnĭ. Compare Serbo-Croatian lijenost, Russian лень (lenʹ), Polish leń. Cf also Aromanian leani.

Noun

lene f (uncountable)

1. laziness, sloth, idleness, indolence

Adjective

lene

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of len.