lentor

English

Alternative forms

• lentour (obsolete)

Noun

lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)

1. (obsolete, chiefly medicine) Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
   • 1797 September 1, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:

     I find there was no wrong Presentation, only a Lentor in the pains perhaps […] .

   • 1744, George Berkeley, Siris:

     There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]

2. Slowness, sluggishness.
   • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:

     [S]he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […] .

Latin

Verb

lentor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of lentō

References

• “lentor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lentor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.