Lento

Borrowed from Italian Lento.

Lento (plural Lentos)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lento is the 36525^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 612 individuals. Lento is most common among White (96.24%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lento”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 423.

From a Karelian vernacular form of Russian Мелентий (Melentij), Лентий (Lentij).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈle̞n̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification^(key): Len‧to

Lento

1. a Finnish surname

• Lento is the 3650^th (tied with 12 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 209 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From lento (“slow”), a nickname for a slow or lazy person.

Lento m or f by sense

1. a surname

From lentus (“slow”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.toː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.to/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪o]

Lentō m sg (genitive Lentōnis); third declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Lucius Caesennius Lento, a Roman politician

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Lento in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.