Usually means: Unvoiced, unaspirated, stop consonant sound.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word tenuis:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenuis: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenuis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tenuis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tenuis: Wordnik
  5. tenuis: Wiktionary
  6. tenuis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. tenuis: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. tenuis: Dictionary.com
  9. Tenuis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. tenuis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Tenuis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. tenuis: FreeDictionary.org
  13. tenuis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenuis: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenuis: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenuis: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

(Note: See tenues as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tenuis)

adjective:  (linguistics) Of Greek consonants, neither aspirated nor voiced, as [p], [t], [k]
adjective:  (linguistics) 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.).
noun:  (linguistics) A tenuis consonant.

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