lent

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English

Pronunciation

Noun

lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)

  1. Alternative form of Lent

Verb

lent

  1. simple past and past participle of lend

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lēntis; first attested 1803[1].

Noun

lent f (plural lents)

  1. lens

Further reading

References


French

Etymology

From Old French lent, from Latin lentus. Doublet of lento, taken from Italian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɑ̃/
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Adjective

lent (feminine lente, masculine plural lents, feminine plural lentes)

  1. slow
    Antonym: rapide

Derived terms

Further reading


Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lentus.

Adjective

lent

  1. slow, sluggish

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of len (down, an obsolete form of lenn) +‎ -t (locative suffix), from le (down) +‎ -n (case suffix). First attested in 1791.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: lent

Adverb

lent (comparative lentebb, superlative leglentebb)

  1. down
    Synonym: lenn

References

  1. ^ lent in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin lentus (slow, sluggish).

Adjective

lent m

  1. (Jersey) slow

Derived terms


Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

lent

  1. past participle of lene

Swedish

Adjective

lent

  1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite neuter singular of len

Veps

Noun

lent

  1. partitive singular of lem'