different between lento vs mento

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?nt??

Noun

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

1. a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices
2. an individual mento song

Anagrams

• Monet, Monte, Moten, meton., monte

Asturian

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentir

Catalan

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative form of mentir

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mento/
• Hyphenation: men?to
• Rhymes: -ento

Noun

mento (accusative singular menton, plural mentoj, accusative plural mentojn)

1. mint (plant)

Derived terms

• pipromento

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from Esperanto menso, Italian mente and Spanish mente, ultimately from Latin m?ns. The Esperanto word was modified to reflect forms in natural languages and international derived terms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?men.to/

Noun

mento (plural menti)

1. mind, mentality

Derived terms

• mentala

Interlingua

Noun

mento (plural mentos)

1. chin

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin mentum, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?men.to/

Noun

mento m (plural menti)

1. (anatomy) chin, mentum

Related terms

Etymology 2

See mentire.

Alternative forms

• mentisco

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?n.to/

Verb

mento

1. first-person singular present indicative of mentire

Anagrams

• monte

Latin

Noun

ment?

1. dative singular of mentum
2. ablative singular of mentum

References

• mento in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mento in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• mento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin mentum.

Noun

mento m (plural mentos)

1. chin (bottom of a face)

   Synonym: queixo