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lente (uncountable)
- An intermediate-acting form ofinsulin, betweenisophane andultralente.
FromDutchlente.
lente (plurallentes)
- spring, the season between winter and summer
FromMiddle Dutchlentin,lenten, fromOld Dutchlentin, fromProto-West Germanic*langatīn.
lente f (plurallentes,diminutivelentetje n)
- spring: the season between winter and summer
- Synonym:voorjaar
- (literary)year ofage
- Synonym:jaar
- eenentwintiglentes ―twenty-oneyears old
Inherited fromVulgar Latin*lenditem, alteration ofLate Latinlendinem, itself an alteration of ClassicalLatinlendem.
lente f (plurallentes)
- (zoology)nit
lente
- femininesingular oflent
Learned borrowing fromLatinlēns, lentem(“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
lente f (plurallentes)
- lens
Fromlenta(“slow”) +-e(adverbial suffix).
lente
- slowly
- Synonym:quik
lente
- lens
lente
- slow
Inflected form oflento.
lente f pl
- feminineplural oflento
First attested 17th century.Borrowed fromLatinlentem(“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
lente f (plurallenti)
- lens
Fromlentus(“slow”) +-ē.
lentē (comparativelentius,superlativelentissimē)
- slowly
- Synonym:tardē
Marcus ad arboremlentē ambulat.- Marcus walksslowly to the tree.
- “lente”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lente”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lente inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
lente f (5th declension)
- riband
- band
- fillet
- ribbon
- sweatband
- tape
lente f pl
- glasses,lenses
lente
- femininesingular oflent
lente
- simplepast oflene
Borrowed fromLatinlentem(“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
- Rhymes:(Portugal)-ẽtɨ,(Brazil)-ẽt͡ʃi
- Hyphenation:len‧te
lente f (plurallentes)
- (optics)lens(object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
- (anatomy)lens(transparent crystalline structure in the eye)
- Synonym:cristalino
- lens(device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
- (figuratively)lens(a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something)
- (geology) afossil ordeposit between twostrata
- clipping oflente de conta(c)to
For quotations using this term, seeCitations:lente.
lente m orfby sense (plurallentes)
- teacher,professor
- Synonyms:professor,docente
The lenses in
bifocals bend light, distorting the appearance of the background (#1)
Folded spectacles with bicolour frame (#2)
Borrowed fromLatinlentem(“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens". Cognate withEnglishlens.
- IPA(key):/ˈlente/[ˈlẽn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes:-ente
- Syllabification:len‧te
lente m orfsame meaning (plurallentes)
- lens
- (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”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- “lente”, inDiccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition,Royal Spanish Academy;Association of Academies of the Spanish Language,2023,→ISBN
- “lente”, inDiccionario 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 fromSpanishlente, fromLatinlentem(“lentil”).
lente (Baybayin spellingᜎᜒᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)
- lens
- magnifying glass
- Synonyms:magnipikador,magnipayer
- flashlight
- Synonym:plaslayt
- “lente”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
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