Tenuis

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of the three surd mutes /, /, /;

— so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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