lento

Borrowed from Italian lento.[1][2]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛntəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛntoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

lento (comparative more lento, superlative most lento)

1. (music) Slow (45–60 bpm). [since 1724]

lento (plural lentos)

1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly.

• Tempo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Elton, Nolte, Olten, Tolen, let on, olent

lento

1. neuter of lentu

Ultimately from Latin lēns. Doublet of lenso.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlento]
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• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: len‧to

lento (accusative singular lenton, plural lentoj, accusative plural lentojn)

1. lentil (plant, seed)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈle̞n̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification^(key): len‧to

From Proto-Finnic *lento. Equivalent to lentää (“to fly”) +‎ -o.

lento

1. flying, flight (act of flying or being in the air)
2. flight (of an aircraft, other flying vehicle or spacecraft)
3. (figuratively) flight (fast and/or smooth movement)

• “1. lento”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Borrowing from Italian lento.

lento

1. (music) lento (slowly)

• “2. lento”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• leton, telon

Borrowed from Italian lento. Doublet of lent.

• IPA^(key): /lɛn.to/

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lento

1. (music) slowly; lento

• “lento”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lentus. The main sense of "slow" may be a learned one, as opposed to the original inherited meaning of "wet, humid", "moistened, soft", also found in the Old Spanish equivalent. Compare also Portuguese lento, Asturian llentu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento̝/

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas)

1. slow

   Synonyms: tardo, vagaroso

   Antonym: rápido

2. soft, not firm
3. wet, humid, moist, damp, covered in mold

• “lento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “lento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lento” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “lento”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

From Proto-Finnic *lento, equivalent to lentää (“to fly”) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish lento and Estonian lend.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈlʲe̞ntŏ̞̥]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈle̞nd̥o̞]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Hyphenation: len‧to

lento

1. flight

   lähtiä lentoo ― to start flying (literally, “to leave into a flight”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 260

From Latin lentus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.to/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: lèn‧to

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lenti, feminine plural lente, superlative lentissimo)

1. slow

   Antonyms: svelto, veloce

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.toː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.to/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪o]

lento

1. ablative/dative neuter/masculine singular of lentus

lentō (present infinitive lentāre, perfect active lentāvī, supine lentātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) to bend under strain, to flex

• “lento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lentus. The main sense of "slow" may be a learned one, as opposed to the original inherited meaning of "wet, humid", "moistened, soft", also found in the Old Spanish and Asturian equivalent. Compare also Galician lento and Asturian llentu.

• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: len‧to

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas, comparable, comparative mais lento, superlative o mais lento or lentíssimo, diminutive lentinho)

1. slow (not quick in motion)

   Synonyms: rápido, veloz

2. soft; not firm

   Synonym: mole

3. wet, humid, moistened

   Synonyms: húmido (Portugal), úmido (Brazil)

4. viscous, slimy

   Synonym: viscoso

Unadapted borrowing from Italian lento.

lento

1. lento

Borrowed from Latin lentus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liento (“humid, wet”), which has a meaning also found in some senses of Galician and Portuguese lento, Asturian llentu; cf. also Valencian Catalan llenta.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento/ [ˈlẽn̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: len‧to

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas, superlative lentísimo)

1. slow

   Synonym: tardo

   Antonym: rápido

• “lento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014