different between homorganic vs lenis

English

Etymology

From homo- +? organic

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?m????æn?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?m????æn?k/
• Hyphenation: ho?mor?gan?ic

Adjective

homorganic (not comparable)

1. (phonetics) Of consonants: having the same place of articulation. For example, labial m, b, p, alveolar n, d, t, velar ?, g, k. Indic alphabets such as Devanagari, as well as the Korean hangul alphabet, are rationally arranged so that homorganic consonants are grouped together.

   Synonym: (rare) homotopic

   Antonym: heterorganic

2. (medicine) produced by the same or homologous organs

Translations

Noun

homorganic (plural homorganics)

1. (phonetics) A consonant having the same place of articulation as another.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?nis (“soft, smooth”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?'n?s, l?'n?s, IPA^(key): /?li?n?s/, /?l?n?s/

Adjective

lenis (not comparable)

1. (phonetics) Weakly articulated (of a consonant), hence voiced; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants.

   Synonym: lax

   Antonym: fortis

   • 2004, Stephan Gramley, Michael Pätzold, A Survey of Modern English, Routledge (?ISBN), page 80:

     All vowels, whether short or complex, are relatively shorter when followed by a fortis consonant and relatively longer when followed by a lenis one or, for those where this is possible, when no consonant follows (in free or unchecked syllables).

Derived terms

• lenition

Noun

lenis (plural lenes)

1. (phonetics) A lenis consonant.

Anagrams

• LINEs, Niles, elsin, liens, lines, lisne

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *leh?-.

Confer lentus. Cognate to Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?n?, “lazy”), whence Russian ??????? (lenivyj, “lazy”), and to Lithuanian l??nas (“slow, calm”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.nis/, [???e?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.nis/, [?l??nis]

Adjective

l?nis (neuter l?ne, comparative l?nior, superlative l?nissimus, adverb l?ne or l?niter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. soft, smooth, gentle
2. gradual
3. moderate, mild, calm

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Derived terms

• sp?ritus l?nis

Related terms

Descendants

• English: lenis, lenient
• Galician: lene, ao len
• Italian: lene
• Occitan: le
• Romanian: lin
• Spanish: lene
• Portuguese: lene

Etymology 2

Inflected form of l?na (“madame, procuress”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.ni?s/, [???e?ni?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.nis/, [?l??nis]

Noun

l?n?s

1. dative plural of l?na
2. ablative plural of l?na

References

• lenis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lenis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lenis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lenis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.