lene

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English

Etymology

Anglicisation of Latin lēnis. Doublet of lenis.

Pronunciation

Noun

lene (plural lenes)

  1. (phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
  2. (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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Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -eːnə

Verb

lene

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of lenen

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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

Adjective

lene m or f (plural lenes)

  1. (literary) mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: maino, suave
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, 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

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

Borrowed from Latin lēnis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛ.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ɛne
  • Hyphenation: lè‧ne

Adjective

lene (plural leni) (literary)

  1. mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: delicato, lieve, mite, soave
    Antonyms: aspro, brusco, forte, greve, pesante
  2. (poetic) smooth
  3. (phonetics) lenis
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Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈle.ne/, /ˈlɛ.ne/
  • Rhymes: -ene, -ɛne
  • Hyphenation: lé‧ne, lè‧ne

Noun

lene f pl

  1. plural of lena

References

  • lene in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  1. ^ lena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Etymology 1

From lēnis.

Adverb

lēne (comparative lēnius, superlative lēnissimē)

  1. softly, gently
    Synonym: lēniter
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Etymology 2

Adjective

lēne

  1. 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)

  1. to lean

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From German lehnen.

Verb

lene

  1. to lean

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēnis. (The expected native form would be *lem from Old Galician-Portuguese lẽe.)

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: le‧ne

Adjective

lene m or f (plural lenes)

  1. smooth, mild, gentle, soft
    Synonyms: brando, suave

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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)

  1. laziness, sloth, idleness, indolence
    Synonyms: indolență, trândăvie, lâncezeală, delăsare

Declension

declension of lene (singular only)
singular
f gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) lene lenea
genitive/dative (unei) lene lenei
vocative lene, leneo

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Serbo-Croatian

Adjective

lene

  1. inflection of len:
    1. masculine accusative plural
    2. feminine genitive singular
    3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlene/
  • Rhymes: -ene
  • Syllabification: le‧ne

Adjective

lene m or f (masculine and feminine plural lenes)

  1. (obsolete) soft
  2. (obsolete) sweet
  3. (obsolete) light

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Swedish

Adjective

lene

  1. definite natural masculine singular of len

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