lentor
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- lentour (obsolete)
Noun
[edit]lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)
- (obsolete, chiefly medicine) Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
- 1797 September 1, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:
- I find there was no wrong Presentation, only a Lentor in the pains perhaps […] .
- 1744, George Berkeley, Siris:
- There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]
- Slowness, sluggishness.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- [S]he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […] .
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]lentor
References
[edit]- “lentor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lentor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.