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The lack of aspiration on a vowel or semivowel in Ancient Greek.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A diacritic (’/◌̓) in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek used to indicate this lack of aspiration (or its historical presence), e.g. ἀ, ῤ.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, writing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spiritus lenis, psili, psilon pneuma
Antonyms: none provided
Calque of Latin spīritus lēnis, from Ancient Greek ψιλὸν πνεῦμα (psilòn pneûma).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
heikko henkäys
— diacritic in Greek
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Finnish:
spiritus lenis
— diacritic in Greek
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French:
esprit doux
— diacritic in Greek
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German:
Spiritus lenis
— diacritic in Greek
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Greek:
ψιλή
(psilí)
— diacritic in Greek
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Ancient Greek:
ψιλὸν πνεῦμα
(psilòn pneûma)
— diacritic in Greek
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Italian:
spirito dolce
— diacritic in Greek
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Latin:
spīritus lēnis
— diacritic in Greek
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Polish:
przydech słaby
— diacritic in Greek
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Portuguese:
espírito brando
— diacritic in Greek
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Russian:
то́нкое придыха́ние
(tónkoje pridyxánije)
— diacritic in Greek
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Russian:
зва́тельце
(zvátelʹce)
— diacritic in Greek
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Sicilian:
spìritu duci
— diacritic in Greek