lente

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• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.teɪ/

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lente (uncountable)

1. An intermediate-acting form of insulin, between isophane and ultralente.

From Dutch lente.

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lente (plural lentes)

1. spring, the season between winter and summer

Seasons in Afrikaans · seisoene (layout · text) · category
lente, voorjaar (“spring”)	somer (“summer”)	herfs, najaar (“autumn”)	winter (“winter”)

From Middle Dutch lentin, lenten, from Old Dutch lentin, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.tə/

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• Hyphenation: len‧te
• Rhymes: -ɛntə
• Homophone: Lenthe

lente f (plural lentes, diminutive lentetje n)

1. spring: the season between winter and summer

   Synonym: voorjaar

2. (literary) year of age

   Synonym: jaar

   eenentwintig lentes ― twenty-one years old

• Afrikaans: lente
• → Papiamentu: lènte, lente

Seasons in Dutch · seizoenen (layout · text) · category
voorjaar (“spring”), lente (“spring”)	zomer (“summer”)	herfst (“autumn”), najaar (“autumn”)	winter (“winter”)

• leent, netel, telen

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃t/

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lenditem, alteration of Late Latin lendinem, itself an alteration of Classical Latin lendem.

lente f (plural lentes)

1. (zoology) nit

• pou m

lente

1. feminine singular of lent

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

Learned borrowing from Latin lēns, lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

lente f (plural lentes)

1. lens

• lentes

From lenta (“slow”) +‎ -e (adverbial suffix).

lente

1. slowly

   Synonym: quik

lente

1. lens

lente

1. slow

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: lèn‧te

Inflected form of lento.

lente f pl

1. feminine plural of lento

First attested 17th century. Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

lente f (plural lenti)

1. lens

• lente a contatto
• lente d'ingrandimento

• lenticchia

From lentus (“slow”) +‎ -ē.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛn.teː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛn̪.t̪e]

lentē (comparative lentius, superlative lentissimē)

1. slowly

   Synonym: tardē

   Marcus ad arborem lentē ambulat.

   Marcus walks slowly to the tree.

• lentēscō
• lentitūdō
• lentulus
• lentus
• festīnā lentē

• “lente”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lente”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lente in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

lente f (5th declension)

1. riband
2. band
3. fillet
4. ribbon
5. sweatband
6. tape

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛntə/

lente f pl

1. glasses, lenses

lente

1. feminine singular of lent

• lenet

lente

1. simple past of lene

Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ẽtɨ, (Brazil) -ẽt͡ʃi
• Hyphenation: len‧te

lente f (plural lentes)

1. (optics) lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
2. (anatomy) lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye)

   Synonym: cristalino

3. lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
4. (figuratively) lens (a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something)
5. (geology) a fossil or deposit between two strata
6. clipping of lente de conta(c)to

For quotations using this term, see Citations:lente.

• lente de conta(c)to

• lentilha, lentícula

lente m or f by sense (plural lentes)

1. teacher, professor

   Synonyms: professor, docente

Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens". Cognate with English lens.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlente/ [ˈlẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: len‧te

lente m or f same meaning (plural lentes)

1. lens
2. (chiefly in the plural, Latin America) glasses, (formal) spectacles, (US) eyeglass

   Synonyms: (Latin America) anteojos, (Spain, Colombia, Dominican Republic) lentillas, (Cuba, Puerto Rico) espejuelos

• Lente can be either masculine or feminine in its singular form, but is usually masculine when used in the plural to refer to eyeglasses.

• “lente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “lente”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
• “lente”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• lente | Diccionario • DELE Ahora

Borrowed from Spanish lente, from Latin lentem (“lentil”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlente/ [ˈlɛn̪.t̪ɛ]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: len‧te

lente (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)

1. lens
2. magnifying glass

   Synonyms: magnipikador, magnipayer

3. flashlight

   Synonym: plaslayt

• “lente”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018