lentus

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.

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

lentus (feminine lenta, neuter lentum, comparative lentior, superlative lentissimus, adverb lentē); first/second-declension adjective

1. sticky, tenacious
2. slow, sluggish

   Synonyms: tardus, sērus, languidus

   Antonyms: rapidus, vēlōx, levis, celer, properus, promptus, facilis

3. flexible, pliant

   Synonym: lēnis

4. indifferent, phlegmatic

   Synonym: quiētus

First/second-declension adjective.

• Asturian: lentu, llentu
• Catalan: lent, llenta
• French: lent
• Friulian: lent
• Galician: lento
• Italian: lento
• Neapolitan: liento
• Occitan: lent
• Old Spanish: liento
• Romanian: lent
• Portuguese: lento
• Sicilian: lentu
• Spanish: lento

• “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.