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5-letter words (2 found)

LENTO,OLENT,

4-letter words (10 found)

ENOL,LENO,LENT,LONE,LOTE,NOEL,NOLE,NOTE,TOLE,TONE,

3-letter words (12 found)

ELT,EON,LET,LOT,NET,NOT,OLE,ONE,TEL,TEN,TOE,TON,

2-letter words (10 found)

EL,EN,ET,LO,NE,NO,OE,ON,TE,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 35 words from lento according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of lento

lento elnto lneto nleto enlto nelto letno eltno lteno tleno etlno telno lnteo nlteo ltneo tlneo ntleo tnleo entlo netlo etnlo tenlo ntelo tnelo lenot elnot lneot nleot enlot nelot leont elont loent olent eolnt oelnt lnoet nloet lonet olnet nolet onlet enolt neolt eonlt oenlt noelt onelt leton elton lteon tleon etlon telon leotn elotn loetn oletn eoltn oeltn ltoen tloen loten olten tolen otlen etoln teoln eotln oetln toeln oteln lntoe nltoe ltnoe tlnoe ntloe tnloe lnote nlote lonte olnte nolte onlte ltone tlone lotne oltne tolne otlne ntole tnole notle ontle tonle otnle entol netol etnol tenol nteol tneol enotl neotl eontl oentl noetl onetl etonl teonl eotnl oetnl toenl otenl ntoel tnoel notel ontel tonel otnel

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Definitions and meaning of lento

lento

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lento.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɛntəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɛntoʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛntəʊ

Adjective

lento (comparative more lento, superlative most lento)

  1. (music) Slow (45–60 bpm). [since 1724]

Translations

Noun

lento (plural lentos)

  1. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly.

See also

  • Tempo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

  • Elton, Nolte, Olten, Tolen, let on, olent

Asturian

Adjective

lento

  1. neuter of lentu

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin lēns. Doublet of lenso.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlento]
  • Audio:
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: len‧to

Noun

lento (accusative singular lenton, plural lentoj, accusative plural lentojn)

  1. lentil (plant, seed)

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈle̞n̪t̪o̞]
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification(key): len‧to

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *lento. Equivalent to lentää (to fly) +‎ -o.

Noun

lento

  1. flying, flight (act of flying or being in the air)
  2. flight (of an aircraft, other flying vehicle or spacecraft)
  3. (figuratively) flight (fast and/or smooth movement)
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • 1. lento”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Italian lento.

Adverb

lento

  1. (music) lento (slowly)

Further reading

  • 2. lento”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Anagrams

  • leton, telon

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lento. Doublet of lent.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛn.to/

Adverb

lento

  1. (music) slowly; lento

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lentus. The main sense of "slow" may be a learned one, as opposed to the original inherited meaning of "wet, humid", "moistened, soft", also found in the Old Spanish equivalent. Compare also Portuguese lento, Asturian llentu.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlento̝/

Adjective

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas)

  1. slow
    Synonyms: tardo, vagaroso
    Antonym: rápido
  2. soft, not firm
  3. wet, humid, moist, damp, covered in mold

Derived terms

References

  • “lento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “lento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “lento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “lento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “lento” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “lento” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lento, equivalent to lentää (to fly) +‎ -o. Cognates include Finnish lento and Estonian lend.

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈlʲe̞ntŏ̞̥]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈlento/, [ˈle̞nd̥o̞]
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Hyphenation: len‧to

Noun

lento

  1. flight
    lähtiä lentooto start flying (literally, “to leave into a flight”)

Declension

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 260

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lentus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛn.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnto
  • Hyphenation: lèn‧to

Adjective

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lenti, feminine plural lente, superlative lentissimo)

  1. slow
    Antonyms: svelto, veloce

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Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlen.toː/, [ˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪oː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlen.to/, [ˈlɛn̪t̪o]

Noun

lento

  1. ablative/dative neuter/masculine singular of lentus

Verb

lentō (present infinitive lentāre, perfect active lentāvī, supine lentātum); first conjugation

  1. (transitive) to bend under strain, to flex

Conjugation

References

  • lento”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lento”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin lentus. The main sense of "slow" may be a learned one, as opposed to the original inherited meaning of "wet, humid", "moistened, soft", also found in the Old Spanish and Asturian equivalent. Compare also Galician lento and Asturian llentu.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ẽtu
  • Hyphenation: len‧to

Adjective

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas, comparable, comparative mais lento, superlative o mais lento or lentíssimo, diminutive lentinho)

  1. slow (not quick in motion)
    Synonyms: rápido, veloz
  2. soft; not firm
    Synonym: mole
  3. wet, humid, moistened
    Synonyms: húmido (Portugal), úmido (Brazil)
  4. viscous, slimy
    Synonym: viscoso

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Italian lento.

Adverb

lento

  1. lento

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lentus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liento (humid, wet), which has a meaning also found in some senses of Galician and Portuguese lento, Asturian llentu; cf. also Valencian Catalan llenta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlento/ [ˈlẽn̪.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: len‧to

Adjective

lento (feminine lenta, masculine plural lentos, feminine plural lentas, superlative lentísimo)

  1. slow
    Synonym: tardo
    Antonym: rápido

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

  • “lento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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