different between lent vs hired

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophones: leant, Lent

Noun

lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lent

Verb

lent

1. simple past tense and past participle of lend

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?lent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?len/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lentus. Compare the inherited Valencian dialect llenta (“something that continues or does not stop”); cf. also Spanish and Portuguese lento.

Adjective

lent (feminine lenta, masculine plural lents, feminine plural lentes)

1. slow

   Antonym: ràpid

Derived terms

• alentir
• lentament

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin l?ns, l?ntis; first attested 1803.

Noun

lent f (plural lents)

1. lens

Derived terms

• lent de contacte

Related terms

• llentilla

Further reading

• “lent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

French

Etymology

From Old French lent, from Latin lentus. Doublet of lento, taken from Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Adjective

lent (feminine singular lente, masculine plural lents, feminine plural lentes)

1. slow

   Antonym: rapide

Derived terms

• lentement

Further reading

• “lent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lentus.

Adjective

lent

1. slow, sluggish

Related terms

• lentece

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?nt]
• Hyphenation: lent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Lexicalization of len (“down”, an obsolete form of lenn) +? -t (locative suffix), from le (“down”) +? -n (case suffix). First attested in 1791.

Adverb

lent (comparative lejjebb or lentebb, superlative leglejjebb or leglentebb)

1. Alternative form of lenn (“below, down; downstairs”)

   Antonyms: fent, fenn

Etymology 2

len (“flax”) +? -t (accusative suffix)

Noun

lent

1. accusative singular of len

References

Further reading

• lent , redirecting to lenn in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin lentus (“slow, sluggish”).

Adjective

lent m

1. (Jersey) slow

Derived terms

• lentement (“slowly”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• lenet

Verb

lent

1. past participle of lene

Romanian

Etymology

From French lent, from Latin lentus.

Adjective

lent m or n (feminine singular lent?, masculine plural len?i, feminine and neuter plural lente)

1. slow

Declension

Swedish

Adjective

lent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of len.

Veps

Noun

lent

1. partitive singular of lem'

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ha??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ha??d/

Verb

hired

1. simple past tense and past participle of hire

Anagrams

• hider, rehid, rheid

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *h?war?d (“family, marriage”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to be lying down”). Cognate with Old High German h?r?t (“marriage”) (German Heirat), Old English h?wen (“household”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xi?.red/, [?hi?.red]

Noun

h?red m

1. family, household
2. retinue
3. company, brotherhood

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hird
  • English: hird