lentor

English

Alternative forms

• lentour (obsolete)

Noun

lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)

1. slowness, sluggishness
2. (obsolete, physics) viscosity
   • 1744, George Berkeley, Siris:

     There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]

   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

     […] she walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […]

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) lentor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of lentō

References

• “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.