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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

Etymology 1

Alteration of earlier land (“urine”), from Middle English land (“urine”), from Old English hland (“urine”), from Proto-West Germanic *hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland? (“urine”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Icelandic hland (“urine”), Norwegian Nynorsk land (“urine”).

Noun

lant (uncountable)

1. Aged urine.

Translations

Verb

lant (third-person singular simple present lants, present participle lanting, simple past and past participle lanted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To flavor (ale) with aged urine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lant (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect, Northern England) Obsolete form of lanterloo. (the card game)

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Etymology 3

Compare lance.

Noun

lant (plural lants)

1. Any of several species of slender marine fishes of the genus Ammodytes. The common European species (Ammodytes tobianus) and the American species (Ammodytes americanus) live on sandy shores, buried in the sand, and are caught in large quantities for bait.

Synonyms

• launce
• sand eel
• sand lance

Anagrams

• Nat'l, natl.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• lånt (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?. Cognate with German Land, English land.

Noun

lant n (plural lèntar) (Sette Comuni)

1. land
2. country, nation

Declension

References

• “lant” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Noun

lant m (plural lants)

1. (zoology) zebu (Bos taurus indicus)

Synonyms

• zébu

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Germanic language, possibly via Bavarian. Attested around 1405. Compare Middle High German lute, Early New High German laut, German Laute, from Old French leüt, from Arabic ????????? (al-??d, “wood, lute”) (literally, "the wood").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?nt]
• Hyphenation: lant

Noun

lant (plural lantok)

1. (music) lute

Declension

Synonyms

• koboz
• líra

Derived terms

• lantos

(Compound words):

• forgólant
• teker?lant

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch lant

Noun

lant n

1. (dry) land
2. (piece of) land
3. country, region
4. ground, earth

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: land
  • Afrikaans: land
  • ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
• Limburgish: landj
• Zealandic: land

Further reading

• “lant”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lant”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German lant

Noun

lant n

1. land
2. country

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

  Swabian: Lahnd

• Bavarian: Land, Lond, Laund, Lånd

  Cimbrian: lant, lånt

• Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

  Hunsrik: Land

  Luxembourgish: Land

• German: Land
  • ? Polish: l?d
• Rhine Franconian:

  Palatine German: Lond

  Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

• Vilamovian: ?aond
• Yiddish: ?????? (land)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Noun

lant n

1. land (as opposed to water)
2. land, terrain
3. territory

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: lant
  • Dutch: land
    • Afrikaans: land
    • ? Sranan Tongo: lanti
  • Limburgish: landj
  • Zealandic: land

Further reading

• “lant”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Compare Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old English land, lond, Old Norse land, Gothic ???????????????? (land).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/

Noun

lant n

1. land
2. country

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: lant
  • Alemannic German: Land, Lånd

    Swabian: Lahnd

  • Bavarian: Land, Lond, Laund, Lånd

    Cimbrian: lant, lånt

  • Central Franconian: Land, Lannt

    Hunsrik: Land

    Luxembourgish: Land

  • German: Land
    • ? Polish: l?d
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: Lond

    Pennsylvania German: Land, Lond

  • Vilamovian: ?aond
  • Yiddish: ?????? (land)