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Definition of Tenues
1. tenuis [n] - See also: tenuis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenues
Literary usage of Tenues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"tenues and Mediae. In pronouncing/*, /, с the vocal organs are in the same position
as in pronouncing 6, d,g, but the breath comes through the open glottis, ..."
2. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... and yet of a larger compassé, and having greater diversity of keepers and
game, than a Park " (tenues de la Ley). Beasts of Chase; V. BEASTS. CHATTELS. ..."
3. The Latin Language: An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems and Flexions by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1894)
"In Greek tenues ... to say whether they are due to some phonetic law peculiar to
Sanscrit, or represent I.-Eur. tenues ... These I.-Eur. tenues, mediae, ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Indo-Germanic Languages: A Concise Exposition by Karl Brugmann, Robert Seymour Conway, William Henry Denham Rouse (1888)
"See §§ 530. 534. 538. Falling together of mediae with tenues and tenues asp.
Act 6. The mediae become tenues, b, d, g become p, t, k, ..."
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