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lent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
- Homophones: leant, Lent
Noun
lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)
- Alternative letter-case form of Lent
Verb
lent
- 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)
- slow
- Antonym: ràpid
Derived terms
- alentir
- lentament
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin l?ns, l?ntis; first attested 1803.
Noun
lent f (plural lents)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Alternative form of lenn (“below, down; downstairs”)
- Antonyms: fent, fenn
Etymology 2
len (“flax”) +? -t (accusative suffix)
Noun
lent
- 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
- (Jersey) slow
Derived terms
- lentement (“slowly”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- lenet
Verb
lent
- 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)
- slow
Declension
Swedish
Adjective
lent
- absolute indefinite neuter form of len.
Veps
Noun
lent
- partitive singular of lem'
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lentil
English
Etymology
From Middle English lentile, from Old French lentille from Latin lenticula, diminutive of l?ns, from a Proto-Indo-European root shared by German Linse and Ancient Greek ??????? (láthuros). Doublet of lenticula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?nt?l/
- Rhymes: -?nt?l
- Hyphenation: len?til
Noun
lentil (plural lentils)
- Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.
- The seed of these plants, used as food.
Related terms
- lens
- lenticular
Translations
See also
- split pea
Anagrams
- Lintel, lintel, tellin, tellin'
Middle English
Noun
lentil
- Alternative form of lentile
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