different between consonants vs tenuis

English

Noun

consonants

1. plural of consonant

Catalan

Adjective

consonants

1. plural of consonant

Noun

consonants

1. plural of consonant

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tenuis (“thin, fine; weak”). Doublet of thin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?nju??s/, /?t?nu??s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?nju?s/, /?t?nu?s/

Adjective

tenuis (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t], [k]
2. (linguistics) Of obstruents in other languages, not voiced, aspirated, glottalized, or otherwise different in phonation from the prototypical values of the voiceless IPA letters ([p], [t], [k], [f], [?], [s], [?], etc.).

Noun

tenuis (plural tenues)

1. (linguistics) A tenuis consonant.
   • 1887, Max Müller

     The tenuis becomes aspirate in Low-German.

Antonyms

• media
• aspirate

Anagrams

• Suiten, intuse, unites, unties

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tenwis, from Proto-Indo-European *ténh?us (“thin”). Cognate with Sanskrit ??? (tanú), Ancient Greek ????? (tanú?), Old English þynne (whence English thin).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?te.nu.is/, [?t??nu?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?te.nu.is/, [?t???nuis]
• (sometimes in poetry) (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ten.u?is/, [?t??nu??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ten.vis/, [?t??nvis]

Adjective

tenuis (neuter tenue, comparative tenuior, superlative tenuissimus, adverb tenuiter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. thin, fine, slender
2. weak, watery
3. slight, trifling
4. delicate, subtle

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Derived terms

• tenue
• tenuist?pit?tus (Mediaeval Latin)
• tenuit?s
• tenuiter

Related terms

• tener

Descendants

• Catalan: tènue
• French: ténu
• Italian: tenue
• Portuguese: ténue / tênue
• Spanish: tenue
• Walloon: tene
• ? English: tenuis; ?? tenuious, tenuous
• ? English: tenuis
• ? German: Tenuis

References

• tenuis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tenuis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tenuis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.