lent
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)
- Alternative letter-case 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)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “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.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “lent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
FriulianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lent
Related termsEdit
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Lexicalization of len (“down”, an obsolete form of lenn) + -t (locative suffix), from le (“down”) + -n (case suffix). First attested in 1791.[1]
AdverbEdit
lent (comparative lejjebb or lentebb, superlative leglejjebb or leglentebb)
Etymology 2Edit
len (“flax”) + -t (accusative suffix)
NounEdit
lent
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- 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.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French, from Latin lentus (“slow, sluggish”).
AdjectiveEdit
lent m
Derived termsEdit
- lentement (“slowly”)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
lent
- past participle of lene
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French lent, from Latin lentus.
AdjectiveEdit
lent m or n (feminine singular lentă, masculine plural lenți, feminine and neuter plural lente)
DeclensionEdit
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lent
- absolute indefinite neuter form of len.
VepsEdit
NounEdit
lent