lento

Borrowed from Italian lento.^[1][2]

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

lento (comparative more lento, superlative most lento)

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

lento (plural lentos)

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

• Tempo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

Borrowed from Latin lentus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento/
• Syllabification: len‧to
• Rhymes: -ento

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

1. slow

• 2022 October, Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA) (version 13) (in Aragonese), page 1496
• 2024 October, Diccionario aragonés-castellano-catalán: Estudio de Filología Aragonesa (version 14) (in Aragonese), page 713
• “lento”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

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

lento

1. neuter of lentu

Ultimately from Latin lēns. Doublet of lenso.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: len‧to

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

1. lentil (plant, seed)

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

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

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)

• “1. 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 1 July 2023

Borrowing from Italian lento.

lento

1. (music) lento (slowly)

• “2. lento”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• leton, telon

Borrowed from Italian lento. Doublet of lent.

• IPA^(key): /lɛn.to/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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lento

1. (music) slowly; lento

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento̝/

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “lento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “lento”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lento”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lento”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lento”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “lento”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Unadapted borrowing from Italian lento, from Latin lentus.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛnto/ [ˈlen̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Syllabification: len‧to

lento

1. (music) lento

   Synonym: lambat

Borrowed from Javanese ꦊꦤ꧀ꦠꦺꦴ (lento, “swelling”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /lənˈto/ [lən̪ˈt̪o]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: len‧to

lênto (plural lento-lento)

1. (cooking) snack made from ground, seasoned, hand-rolled, then fried mung beans

• “lento”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

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

lento

1. flight

   lähtiä lentoo ― to start flying (literally, “to leave into a flight”)

Declension of lento (type 4/koivu, nt-nn gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lento	lennot
genitive	lennon	lentoin, lentoloin
partitive	lentoa	lentoja, lentoloja
illative	lentoo	lentoi, lentoloihe
inessive	lennoos	lennois, lentolois
elative	lennost	lennoist, lentoloist
allative	lennolle	lennoille, lentoloille
adessive	lennool	lennoil, lentoloil
ablative	lennolt	lennoilt, lentoloilt
translative	lennoks	lennoiks, lentoloiks
essive	lentonna, lentoon	lentoinna, lentoloinna, lentoin, lentoloin
exessive1)	lentont	lentoint, lentoloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 260
• Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 100

Inherited from Latin lentus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛn.to/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -ɛnto
• Hyphenation: lèn‧to

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

1. slow

   Antonyms: svelto, veloce

lento m (plural lenti)

1. slow dance
   • 2024, Ricchi e Poveri, “Aria [Air]”, in Aria [Air], performed by Ricchi e Poveri:

     Regina, mi concede questo lento?

     Queen, will you allow me this slow dance?

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫɛn.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛn.to]

lentō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of lentus

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

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

• “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

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.

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -ẽtu
• Hyphenation: len‧to

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

• “lento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from Italian lento.

lento

1. lento

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.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlento/ [ˈlẽn̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: len‧to

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

1. slow

   Synonym: tardo

   Antonym: rápido

• “lento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025