lentus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lentos (“soft”), from Proto-Indo-European *lentos (“soft, smooth, pliant”), likely related to Proto-Indo-European *lentéh₂ (“linden, lime(-wood)”), and cognate with Proto-Germanic *lindō (“linden”) (whence English linden), Proto-Balto-Slavic *lentā́ˀ (whence Lithuanian lentà (“(linden) board”), Russian лут (lut, “(linden) bast”)), Albanian lëndë (“wood, material”), as well as perhaps Sanskrit लता (latā, “tendril, creeper”).[1]
Compare also lēnis, with similar sound and meaning but different origin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlen.tus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlen.tus/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪us]
Adjective
lentus (feminine lenta, neuter lentum, comparative lentior, superlative lentissimus, adverb lentē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | lentus | lenta | lentum | lentī | lentae | lenta | |
Genitive | lentī | lentae | lentī | lentōrum | lentārum | lentōrum | |
Dative | lentō | lentō | lentīs | ||||
Accusative | lentum | lentam | lentum | lentōs | lentās | lenta | |
Ablative | lentō | lentā | lentō | lentīs | |||
Vocative | lente | lenta | lentum | lentī | lentae | lenta |
Descendants
References
- “lentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 335
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