lenta

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See also: lentă and lentą

Asturian

Adjective

lenta

feminine singular of lentu

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈlen.tə]
IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈlen.ta]

Adjective

lenta

feminine singular of lent

Galician

Adjective

lenta

feminine singular of lento

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French lent, Italian lento, Spanish lento, from Latin lentus.

Adjective

lenta

slow
Synonym: nerapida

Antonyms: ajila, rapida

Derived terms

lentacho (“dawdler”)
lente (“slowly”)
lentesar (“to be slow”)
lenteskar (“to slow down, slacken, lag”, intransitive verb)
lentesko (“slowing down”)
lenteso (“slowness, sloth”)
lentigar (“to slow down, slacken, lag”, transitive verb)
lentigo (“slowing down”)
lento (“a slow person”)

Italian

Adjective

lenta f sg

feminine singular of lento

Anagrams

Natel

Latin

Verb

lentā

second-person singular present active imperative of lentō

References

lenta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Lithuanian

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lenta

Wikipedia ^lt

Etymology

Related to Latvian lenta (“board, plank”), Proto-Slavic *lǫtъ (“linden bast”) (whence Russian лут (lut, “bast, bark of a linden”), also diminutive *lǫtъka), from Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lenteh₂; compare Albanian lëndë (“timber; matter”), Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

lentà f (plural leñtos) stress pattern 4 (diminutive lentẽlė)

board^[3]

Declension

Declension of lentà

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	lentà	leñtos
genitive (kilmininkas)	lentõs	lentų̃
dative (naudininkas)	leñtai	lentóms
accusative (galininkas)	leñtą	lentàs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	lentà	lentomìs
locative (vietininkas)	lentojè	lentosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	leñta	leñtos

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “lenta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 280-1
^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) “*lentehₐ-”, in The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 161
^ “lenta” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlẽ.tɐ/

Rhymes: -ẽtɐ
Hyphenation: len‧ta

Adjective

lenta

feminine singular of lento

Spanish

Adjective

lenta f sg

feminine singular of lento

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) “lenta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 280-1

[2] Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) “*lentehₐ-”, in The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 161

[3] “lenta” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

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