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- Definition summary
- (linguistics) Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t], [k]
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (linguistics) Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t], [k]
- (linguistics) Of obstruents in other languages, not voiced, aspirated, glottalized, or otherwise different in phonation from the prototypical values of the voiceless IPA letters ([p], [t], [k], [f], [θ], [s], [ʃ], etc.).
- [Noun]
- (linguistics) A tenuis consonant.
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