lente
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lente (uncountable)
- An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.
Afrikaans edit
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lente (plural lentes)
- spring, the season between winter and summer
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Seasons in Afrikaans · seisoene (layout · text) · category | |||
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lente, voorjaar (“spring”) | somer (“summer”) | herfs, najaar (“autumn”) | winter (“winter”) |
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch lentin, lenten, from Old Dutch lentin, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn.
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Noun edit
lente f (plural lentes, diminutive lentetje n)
- spring: the season between winter and summer
- Synonym: voorjaar
- (literary) year of age
- Synonym: jaar
- eenentwintig lentes ― twenty-one years old
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Seasons in Dutch · seizoenen (layout · text) · category | |||
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voorjaar (“spring”), lente (“spring”) | zomer (“summer”) | herfst (“autumn”), najaar (“autumn”) | winter (“winter”) |
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lenditem, alteration of Late Latin lendinem, itself an alteration of Classical Latin lendem.
Noun edit
lente f (plural lentes)
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- pou m
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
lente
References edit
- “lente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
Noun edit
lente f (plural lentes)
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Ido edit
Etymology edit
From lenta (“slow”) + -e (adverbial suffix).
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lente
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lente
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lente
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Etymology 1 edit
Inflected form of lento.
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lente f pl
Etymology 2 edit
First attested 17th century. Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
Noun edit
lente f (plural lenti)
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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlen.teː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlen.te/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪e]
Adverb edit
lentē (comparative lentius, superlative lentissimē)
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References edit
- “lente”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lente”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lente in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Latvian edit
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lente f (5th declension)
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lente f pl
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lente
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lente
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
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Noun edit
lente f (plural lentes)
- (optics) lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
- (anatomy) lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye)
- Synonym: cristalino
- lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
- (figuratively) lens (a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something)
- (geology) a fossil or deposit between two strata
- Clipping of lente de conta(c)to.
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:lente.
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Noun edit
lente m or f by sense (plural lentes)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens". Cognate with English lens.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
lente m or f same meaning (plural lentes)
- lens
- (chiefly in the plural, Latin America) glasses, (formal) spectacles, (US) eyeglass
- Synonyms: (Latin America) anteojos, (Spain, Colombia, Dominican Republic) lentillas, (Cuba, Puerto Rico) espejuelos
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- Lente can be either masculine or feminine in its singular form, but is always masculine when used in the plural to refer to eyeglasses.
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Further reading edit
- “lente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish lente, from Latin lentem (“lentil”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈlente/ [ˈlɛn.tɛ]
- Rhymes: -ente
- Syllabification: len‧te
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lente (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- lens
- magnifying glass
- Synonyms: magnipikador, magnipayer
- flashlight
- Synonym: plaslayt
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Further reading edit
- “lente”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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- es:Glasses
- es:Light
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