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plural lenes
(phonetics) The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis). examples
(phonetics) A voiceless, or unaspirated, stopped consonant, such as Greek pi, kappa, or tau. quotations examples
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 […]
1861, William Edward Jelf, Accidence