Lenz

Lenz (plural Lenzes)

1. A surname

• Lenze (obsolete)

From Middle High German lenze, from Old High German lenzo, from Proto-West Germanic *langatīn. Related to English Lent and Dutch lente. By surface analysis, from lang.

• IPA^(key): /lɛnt͡s/

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• Homophone: lenz

Lenz m (strong, genitive Lenzes, plural Lenze)

1. (archaic, poetic or humorous) spring (season)

   Synonyms: Frühling, Frühjahr

   • 1876, Richard Wagner, “Die Walküre”, in Der Ring des Nibelungen, act I, scene iii:

     Fern von hier folge mir nun, fort in des Lenzes lachendes Haus

     Far from here follow me now, away to springtime's smiling house

   • 1977, Mascha Kaléko, Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt:

     Dass Herbst dem Sommer folgt und Lenz dem Winter,
     Gefällt mir wohl. Da steckt ein Sinn dahinter,
     Wenn auch die Neunmalklugen ihn nicht sehn.

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• Now used in the expression fauler Lenz or lauer Lenz (“a period of idleness”), and sometimes jocularly to give the age of a person (like English summer). In the actual sense of “spring” now only poetic, but even then markedly archaic-sounding. Still widely known is the song title Veronika, der Lenz ist da.

• faulenzen (not originally related, but associated)

• “Lenz” in Duden online
• “Lenz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from German Lenz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛnt͡s/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt͡s
• Syllabification: Lenz

Lenz m pers

1. a male surname

Lenz f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• Appendix:Polish surnames