different between lent vs lease

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, US) IPA^(key): /li?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Etymology 1

From Middle English lesen, from Old English lesan (“to collect, pick, select, gather”), from Proto-Germanic *lesan? (“to gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”).

Cognate with Scots lease (“to arrange, gather”), Saterland Frisian leese (“to gather, read”), West Frisian lêze (“to read”), Dutch lezen (“to gather, read”), German lesen (“to gather, read”), Danish læse (“to collect, read”).

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased) (chiefly dialectal)

1. (transitive) To gather.
2. (transitive) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up.
3. (transitive) To glean.
4. (intransitive) To glean, gather up leavings.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lease.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?asian (“to lie, tell lies”), from l?as (“falsehood, lying, untruth, mistake”).

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)

1. (transitive, intransitive, Britain dialectal) To tell lies; tell lies about; slander; calumniate.

Derived terms

• leasing

Etymology 3

From Middle English lese, from Old English l?s (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *l?sw? (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y-, *l?yd- (“to leave, let”). Cognate with Old Saxon l?sa (“meadow”). See also leasow.

Alternative forms

• leaze

Noun

lease (plural leases)

1. An open pasture or common.
   • 1928, Thomas Hardy, He Never Expected Much:

     Since as a child I used to lie

     Upon the leaze and watch the sky,

     Never, I own, expected I

     That life would all be fair.

Etymology 4

From Middle English lesen, from Old English l?esan (“to loosen, release, redeem, deliver, liberate”), from Proto-Germanic *lausijan? (“to release, loosen”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, solve, separate”). Cognate with Dutch lozen (“to drain, discharge”), German lösen (“to release”), Swedish lösa (“to solve”), Icelandic leysa (“to solve”).

Alternative forms

• leese (Scotland)

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To release; let go; unloose.

Etymology 5

From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin lax? (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German l?zan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen). Cognate with Old English l?tan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”). More at let.

Verb

lease (third-person singular simple present leases, present participle leasing, simple past and past participle leased)

1. (transitive) To operate or live in some property or land through purchasing a long-term contract (or leasehold) from the owner (or freeholder).
2. (transitive) To take or hold by lease.
3. (intransitive) To grant a lease; to let or rent.

Derived terms

• re-lease

Translations

Noun

lease (plural leases)

1. A contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified period in exchange for a specified rent.
2. The period of such a contract.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:

     Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

     And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

3. A leasehold.

Derived terms

• off-lease

Translations

Descendants

• ? Dutch: leasen
• ? English: leasing
  • ? Spanish: leasing
  • ? Finnish: leasing
  • ? Polish: leasing
  • ? Swedish: leasing

Related terms

• lessor, lessee

Etymology 6

From leash.

Noun

lease (plural leases)

1. The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.

Anagrams

• Elsea, Seale, eales, easel, easle, seale

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?s/, /lis/
• Hyphenation: lease
• Homophone: lies

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English lease.

Noun

lease f (plural leases, diminutive leaseje n)

1. lease

   Synonym: pacht

Derived terms

• leaseauto
• leasewagen

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lease

1. first-person singular present indicative of leasen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of leasen
3. imperative of leasen

Middle English

Adjective

lease

1. Alternative form of les

Noun

lease

1. Alternative form of les