lent
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)
- Alternative form of Lent
VerbEdit
lent
- simple past tense and past participle of lend
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Latin lentus. Compare the inherited Valencian dialect llenta (“something that continues or does not stop”); cf. also Spanish and Portuguese lento.
AdjectiveEdit
lent (feminine lenta, masculine plural lents, feminine plural lentes)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Latin lēns, lēntis; first attested 1803[1].
NounEdit
lent f (plural lents)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “lent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “lent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “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.
ReferencesEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French lent, from Latin lentus. Doublet of lento, taken from Italian.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lent (feminine singular lente, masculine plural lents, feminine plural lentes)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “lent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
FriulianEdit
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
A lexicalized inflected form derived from len (“down (obsolete form of lenn)”) + -t (“locative suffix”), from le (“down”) + -n (“case suffix”). First attested in 1791.[1]
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
lent (comparative lentebb, superlative leglentebb)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, from Latin lentus (“slow, sluggish”).
AdjectiveEdit
lent m
Derived termsEdit
- lentement (“slowly”)