Definitions for lenitive
ˈlɛn ɪ tɪvleni·tive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lenitiveadjective

   remedy that eases pain and discomfort

2. alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliativeadjective

   moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lenitivenoun

   An analgesic or other source of relief from pain

2. lenitiveadjective

   Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.

3. lenitiveadjective

   Mild; gentle.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lenitiveadjective

   Assuasive; emollient.

   Etymology: lenitif, Fr. lenio, Lat.

   Some plants have a milk in them; the cause may be an inception of putrefaction: for those milks have all an acrimony, though one would think they should be lenitive. Francis Bacon.

   There is aliment lenitive expelling the fœces without stimulating the bowels; such are animal oils. Arbuthnot.

2. Lenitivenoun

   1. Any thing applied to ease pain.2. A palliative.

   There are lenitives that friendship will apply, before it would be brought to decretory rigours. Robert South, Sermons.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lenitive

   In linguistics, lenition is a sound change that alters consonants, making them more sonorous. The word lenition itself means "softening" or "weakening" (from Latin lēnis 'weak'). Lenition can happen both synchronically (within a language at a particular point in time) and diachronically (as a language changes over time). Lenition can involve such changes as voicing a voiceless consonant, causing a consonant to relax occlusion, to lose its place of articulation (a phenomenon called debuccalization, which turns a consonant into a glottal consonant like [h] or [ʔ]), or even causing a consonant to disappear entirely. An example of synchronic lenition is found in most varieties of American English, in the form of flapping: the /t/ of a word like wait [weɪt] is pronounced as the more sonorous [ɾ] in the related form waiting [ˈweɪɾɪŋ]. Some varieties of Spanish show debuccalization of /s/ to [h] at the end of a syllable, so that a word like estamos "we are" is pronounced [ehˈtamoh]. An example of diachronic lenition can be found in the Romance languages, where the /t/ of Latin patrem ("father", accusative) has become /d/ in Italian and Spanish padre (the latter weakened synchronically /d/ → [ð̞]), while in Catalan pare, French père and Portuguese pai historical /t/ has disappeared completely. In some languages, lenition has been grammaticalized into a consonant mutation, which means it is no longer triggered by its phonological environment but is now governed by its syntactic or morphological environment. For example, in Welsh, the word cath "cat" begins with the sound /k/, but after the definite article y, the /k/ changes to [ɡ]: "the cat" in Welsh is y gath. This was historically due to intervocalic lenition, but in the plural, lenition does not happen, so "the cats" is y cathod, not *y gathod. The change of /k/ to [ɡ] in y gath is thus caused by the syntax of the phrase, not by the modern phonological position of the consonant /k/. The opposite of lenition, fortition, a sound change that makes a consonant "stronger", is less common.

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1. lenitive

   Lenitive refers to something that works to alleviate, soften or soothe. In linguistics, it also refers to a sound change that alters consonants to make them more sonorous. In medicine, lenitive describes a treatment or medication designed to ease pain or discomfort.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Lenitiveadjective

   having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient

2. Lenitivenoun

   a medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants

3. Lenitivenoun

   a mild purgative; a laxative

4. Lenitivenoun

   that which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative

5. Etymology: [Cf. F. lnitif.]

How to pronounce lenitive?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say lenitive in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lenitive in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lenitive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lenitive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lenitive
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=lenitive
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenitive
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lenitive