Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t
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.).
The superscript equal sign ˭ is here used to denote the Czech tenuis consonant, in this case the plosive [t˭], which lacks aspiration, in order to contrast it with its aspirated counterpart in English [tʰ].
A tenuis consonant.
The tenuis becomes aspirate in Low-German.
Unadapted borrowing from Latin tenuis (“thin, fine; weak”). Doublet of thin.
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