lent

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

lent (countable and uncountable, plural lents)

1. (Christianity) A Christian religious observance period that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday.

Verb

lent

1. simple past tense and past participle of lend

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

References

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃/

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Adjective

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

1. slow

   Antonym: rapide

Further reading

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

Etymology

From Latin lentus.

Adjective

lent

1. slow, sluggish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

lent (comparative lentebb, superlative leglentebb)

1. down

References

Etymology

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

Adjective

lent m

1. (Jersey) slow

Alternative forms

• lenet

Verb

lent

1. past participle of lene

Adjective

lent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of len.