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 and past participle of lend

From German Linte, likely via Russian ле́нта (lénta).

lent (definite accusative lenti, plural lentlər)

1. ribbon, fillet
2. band
3. tape

• lentə almaq (“to film”)

• “lent” in Obastan.com.

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

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 lentem. First attested in 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.

Inherited 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
• lenteur

• “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’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). 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

• Middle English: lent, lente

Borrowed 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. indefinite neuter singular of len

lent

1. partitive singular of lem'