lentulus

From lentus (“slow”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.tu.lus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlen.tu.lus/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪ulus]

lentulus (feminine lentula, neuter lentulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (rare): Diminutive of lentus (“slow”)
   • 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 10.11.2:

     Vides enim profecto angustias. Curari tamen ea tibi utique iubet. An existimas illum in isto genere lentulum aut restrictum? Nemo est minus. De fratre satis.

     • 1913 translation by E. O. Winstedt

       For of course you see his straits. However he has ordered the sum to be paid to your account. Perhaps you suppose that he is slow or close-fisted in money matters. No one is less so. But enough about my brother.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (slow): tardus

• “lentulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lentulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lentulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lentulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lentulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray