lentus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *lentos (“soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *lentos (“soft, smooth, pliant”), likely related to Proto-Indo-European *lentéh₂ (“linden, lime(-wood)”), and cognate with Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden”) (whence English linden), Proto-Balto-Slavic *lentā́ˀ (whence Lithuanian lentà (“(linden) board”), Russian лут (lut, “(linden) bast”)), Albanian lëndë (“wood, material”), as well as perhaps Sanskrit लता (latā, “tendril, creeper”).[1]
Compare also lēnis, with similar sound and meaning but different origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlen.tus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlen.tus/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪us]
Adjective
editlentus (feminine lenta, neuter lentum, comparative lentior, superlative lentissimus, adverb lentē); first/second-declension adjective
- sticky, tenacious
- slow, sluggish
- flexible, pliant
- Synonym: lēnis
- indifferent, phlegmatic
- Synonym: quiētus
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | lentus | lenta | lentum | lentī | lentae | lenta | |
| Genitive | lentī | lentae | lentī | lentōrum | lentārum | lentōrum | |
| Dative | lentō | lentō | lentīs | ||||
| Accusative | lentum | lentam | lentum | lentōs | lentās | lenta | |
| Ablative | lentō | lentā | lentō | lentīs | |||
| Vocative | lente | lenta | lentum | lentī | lentae | lenta | |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Asturian: lentu, llentu
- Catalan: lent, llenta
- French: lent
- Friulian: lent
- Galician: lento
- Italian: lento
- Neapolitan: liento
- Occitan: lent
- Old Spanish: liento
- Romanian: lent
- Portuguese: lento
- Sicilian: lentu
- Spanish: lento
References
edit- “lentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 335