different between lento vs cento

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lento.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) Rhymes: -?nt??

Adjective

lento (comparative more lento, superlative most lento)

1. (music) Very slow.

Adverb

lento (comparative more lento, superlative most lento)

1. (music) Very slowly.

Noun

lento (plural lentos)

1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly.

See also

• Tempo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Elton, Nolte, Tolen, let on, olent

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lento/
• Rhymes: -ento

Noun

lento (accusative singular lenton, plural lentoj, accusative plural lentojn)

1. lentil (plant, seed)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lento/, [?le?n?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: len?to

Etymology 1

From lentää (“to fly”) +? -o.

Noun

lento

1. flying, flight (act of flying or being in the air)
2. flight (of an aircraft, other flying vehicle or spacecraft)
3. (figuratively) flight (fast and/or smooth movement)

Declension

Derived terms

• lennosto

Compounds

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Italian lento.

Adverb

lento

1. (music) lento (slowly)

Anagrams

• leton, telon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lento. Doublet of lent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n.to/

Adverb

lento

1. (music) slowly; lento

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin lentus. The main sense of "slow" may be a learned one, as opposed to the original inherited meaning of "wet, humid", "moistened, soft", also found in the Old Spanish equivalent. Compare also Portuguese lento, Asturian llentu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lento?/

Adjective

lento m (feminine singular lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas)

1. slow

   Synonyms: tardo, vagaroso

   Antonym: rápido

2. soft, not firm
3. wet, humid, moist, damp, covered in mold

Derived terms

References

• “lento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “lento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “lento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lento” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “lento” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ingrian

Noun

lento

1. flight (the act of flying)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?n.to/
• Rhymes: -?nto

Adjective

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lenti, feminine plural lente)

1. slow

   Antonyms: svelto, veloce

Related terms

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?len.to?/, [????n?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?len.to/, [?l?n?t??]

Verb

lent? (present infinitive lent?re, perfect active lent?v?, supine lent?tum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) I bend under strain, I flex

Conjugation

References

• lento in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lento in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin lentus. The main sense of "slow" may be a learned one, as opposed to the original inherited meaning of "wet, humid", "moistened, soft", also found in the Old Spanish equivalent. Compare also Galician lento.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?l?.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?l?.tu/, [?l???????.t??]
• Hyphenation: len?to

Adjective

lento m (feminine singular lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas, comparable)

1. slow (not quick in motion)
2. soft; not firm
3. wet, humid, moistened, viscous, slimy

Inflection

Related terms

• lentidão

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lentus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liento (“humid, wet”), which has a meaning also found in some senses of Galician and Portuguese lento, Asturian llentu; cf. also Valencian Catalan llenta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lento/, [?l?n?.t?o]
• Hyphenation: len?to

Adjective

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas) (superlative lentísimo)

1. slow

   Synonym: tardo

   Antonym: rápido

Derived terms

• cámara lenta
• más lento que el caballo del malo
• más lento que un desfile de cojos
• manjar lento

Related terms

References

• “lento” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin cento (“patchwork garment”).

Noun

cento (plural centos or centones)

1. A hotchpotch, a mixture; especially a piece made up of quotations from other authors, or a poem containing individual lines from other poems.

   • Now look out in the GRADUS for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus, for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus. I mention this by way of elucidating one of the most ordinary processes in the ferrumination of these Centos.

Derived terms

• centoism
• centoist
• centonical
• centonism

Anagrams

• Conte, Conté, Note?, c note, c-note, conté, cteno-, oncet, tecno-

Esperanto

Etymology

cent +? -o

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tsento/
• Hyphenation: cen?to
• Rhymes: -ento

Noun

cento (accusative singular centon, plural centoj, accusative plural centojn)

1. hundred, group of one hundred of something

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Numeral

cento

1. combining form of cen (100).

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.

Interlingua

Noun

cento (plural centos)

1. hundred

Numeral

cento

1. a hundred

Derived terms

• duo centos (“two hundred”)
• quatro centos (“four hundred”)
• cinque centos (“five hundred”)
• novem centos (“nine hundred”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???n.to/
• Rhymes: -?nto

Numeral

cento

1. hundred

Derived terms

• duecento (“two hundred”)
• trecento (“three hundred”)
• quattrocento (“four hundred”)
• cinquecento (“five hundred”)
• seicento (“six hundred”)
• settecento (“seven hundred”)
• ottocento (“eight hundred”)
• novecento (“nine hundred”)

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Italian numbers

Anagrams

• conte

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.to?/, [?k?n?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.to/, [?t???n?t??]

Noun

cent? m (genitive cent?nis); third declension

1. A garment of several pieces sewed together; a patchwork
2. A cap worn under the helmet

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: cencio

References

• cento in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cento in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cento in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cento in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?.tu/
• Homophone: sento
• Hyphenation: cen?to

Adjective

cento m or f

1. (only in compounds) one hundred

Usage notes

For 100 itself, cem is used.

Noun

cento m (plural centos)

1. hundred (100 units of something)