lent

• IPA^(key): /lɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Homophones: leant, Lent

lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lent

lent

1. simple past tense and past participle of lend

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈlent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈlen/

Borrowed from Latin lentus. Compare the inherited Valencian dialect llenta (“something that continues or does not stop”); compare also Spanish and Portuguese lento.

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

1. slow

   Antonym: ràpid

• alentir
• lentament

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

lent f (plural lents)

1. lens

• lent de contacte

• lentigen
• llentilla

• “lent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃/

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

1. slow

   Antonym: rapide

• lentement

• “lent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin lentus.

lent

1. slow, sluggish

• lentece

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛnt]
• Hyphenation: lent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

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

lent (comparative lejjebb or lentebb, superlative leglejjebb or leglentebb)

1. Alternative form of lenn (“below, down; downstairs”)

   Antonyms: fent, fenn

len (“flax”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix)

lent

1. accusative singular of len

• lent , redirecting to lenn in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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

lent m

1. (Jersey) slow

• lentement (“slowly”)

• lenet

lent

1. past participle of lene

Borrowed from Latin lēns.

• IPA^(key): /lent/

lent f

1. lentil

From French lent, from Latin lentus.

lent m or n (feminine singular lentă, masculine plural lenți, feminine and neuter plural lente)

1. slow

lent

1. absolute indefinite neuter singular of len.

lent

1. partitive singular of lem'