lente

From Dutch lente.

lente (plural lentes)

1. spring, the season between winter and summer

From Middle Dutch lentin, lenten, from Old Dutch lentin, from Proto-Germanic *langatīnaz, compound of *langaz (“long”) + *tīnaz (“day”). Cognate with English Lent, German Lenz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛntə/

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• Hyphenation: len‧te

lente f (plural lentes, diminutive lentetje n)

1. spring: the season between winter and summer

• voorjaar

• Afrikaans: lente

• (seasons) seizoen, jaargetijde; lente/voorjaar, zomer, herfst/najaar, winter ^{(Category: nl:Seasons)}

• leent, netel, telen

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃t/

From Old French, from Vulgar Latin *lenditem, from Latin lēns, lendem.

lente f (plural lentes)

1. (zoology) nit

• pou m

Inflected forms.

lente

1. feminine singular of lent

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

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

lente f (plural lentes)

1. lens

• lentes

From lenta (“slow”) +‎ -e (adverbial suffix).

lente

1. slowly

   Synonym: quik

lente

1. lens

• Rhymes: -ɛnte

Inflected form of lento.

lente f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective lento.

First attested 17th century. Borrowed from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

lente f (plural lenti)

1. lens

• lente a contatto
• lente d'ingrandimento

• lenticchia

From lentus (“slow”) +‎ -ē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.teː/, [ˈɫɛn.teː]

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lentē (comparative lentius, superlative lentissimē)

1. slowly

   Marcus ambulat lente ad arborem.

   Marcus walks slowly to the tree.

• (slowly): tardē

• lentēscō
• lentitūdō
• lentulus
• lentus
• festina lente

• lente in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lente in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lente in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

lente f (5th declension)

1. riband
2. band
3. fillet
4. ribbon
5. sweatband
6. tape

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛntə/

lente f pl

1. glasses, lenses

lente

1. feminine singular of lent

• lenet

lente

1. simple past of lene

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlẽ.t͡ʃi/

lente f (plural lentes)

1. (optics) lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
2. (anatomy) lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye)

   Synonym: cristalino

3. lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
4. (figuratively) lens (a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something)
5. (geology) a fossil or deposit between two strata
6. Clipping of lente de contato.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:lente.

• lente de contato

• lentilha, lentícula

Borrowed from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

lente m (plural lentes)

1. lens

• lenteja
• lentejuela
• liendre