lent

• IPA^(key): /lɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)

1. Alternative form of Lent

lent

1. simple past tense and past participle of lend

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

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

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

1. slow

   Antonym: ràpid

• alentir
• lentament

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lēntis; first attested 1803[1].

lent f (plural lents)

1. lens

• llentilla

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃/

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

1. slow

   Antonym: rapide

• lentement

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

From Latin lentus.

lent

1. slow, sluggish

• lentece

Lexicalization of len (“down”, an obsolete form of lenn) +‎ -t (locative suffix), from le (“down”) +‎ -n (case suffix). First attested in 1791.[1]

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

lent (comparative lentebb, superlative leglentebb)

1. down

   Synonym: lenn

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

lent m

1. (Jersey) slow

• lentement (“slowly”)

• lenet

lent

1. past participle of lene

lent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of len.