noun
- a voiceless stop consonant produced without aspiration
Usage: phonetics
Examples
- The phonetician explained that /p/, /t/, and /k/ are examples of tenuis consonants.
- In many languages, tenuis stops contrast with aspirated stops.
- The student learned to distinguish between tenuis and voiced consonants.
- Ancient Greek had a three-way distinction including tenuis stops.
- The linguist analyzed the tenuis sounds in the dialect.