lenition

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /lɪˈnɪʃən/|/ləˈnɪʃən/|/liːˈnɪʃən/    美 /ləˈnɪʃən/|/liˈnɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A weakening of articulation causing a consonant to become lenis (soft). countable,uncountable
    — One of these processes, the process of T-Lenition, is extremely common, even though it takes place only when the input consonant is adjacent to a small number of affixes. In this change, a stopped consonant, [p t k b d g], becomes a fricative, [s, z, š, ž]. This process is called lenition, or weakening.

词形变化

lenitions plural

词源

Analyzable as lenis + -ition, or as if from Latin lēnīt(us) + -ion, or Latin lēnītiō (“softening”) from lēniō (“soften”) + -tiō (action noun suffix) (attested since at least the 1500s, the same timeframe lenition is first attested in English with the sense "assuaging"). Modelled on German Lenierung.
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