lent

See also: Lent and -lent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Homophones: leant, Lent

Noun

lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Lent

Verb

lent

1. simple past tense and past participle of lend

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

1. slow

   Antonym: ràpid

Derived terms

• alentir
• lentament

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lēntis; first attested 1803.

Noun

lent f (plural lents)

1. lens

Derived terms

• lent de contacte

Related terms

• llentilla

Further reading

• “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.

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃/

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Adjective

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

1. slow

   Antonym: rapide

Derived terms

• lentement

Further reading

• “lent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin lentus.

Adjective

lent

1. slow, sluggish

Related terms

• lentece

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

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

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

   Antonyms: fent, fenn

Etymology 2

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

Noun

lent

1. accusative singular of len

Further reading

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

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Norman

Etymology

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

Adjective

lent m

1. (Jersey) slow

Derived terms

• lentement (“slowly”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• lenet

Verb

lent

1. past participle of lene

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Romanian

Etymology

From French lent, from Latin lentus.

Adjective

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

1. slow

Declension

Declension of lent

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	lent		lentă	lenți	lente
	definite	lentul		lenta	lenții	lentele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	lent		lente	lenți	lente
	definite	lentului		lentei	lenților	lentelor

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Swedish

Adjective

lent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of len.

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Veps

Noun

lent

1. partitive singular of lem'