lente Latin · revision 32539

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=2nd half of 2nd century BC, Afranius|origins=ine-pro *lent-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫɛn.teː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlɛn.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lentē''' (comparative lentius, superlative lentissimē)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lentus|-ē|t1=pliant; slow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lentus]] to [[itc-pro|*lento-|t=soft]] and [[ine-pro|*lent-o-|t=soft, smooth, pliant]].^(de Vaan 2008) He compares [[lt|lentà|t=board, plank]] and [[goh|lindi|t=soft, mild]], and explains [[goh|linta|t=linden]] by the tree's soft wood.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest quotation is from the comedian Afranius, of someone who deals with the speaker slowly and makes fun of him.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is slowly, at leisure: Cicero writes of a man who used to speak more slowly.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) It can mean tardily, with delay, and also coolly, without emotion: Cicero finds it witty to answer calmly what the questioners do not want to hear.^(OLD 2012) The phrase ⟨lentē ferre⟩ is to take something calmly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of 2nd century BC – Afranius of slow and teasing treatment.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of slow speech and calm answers.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|slowly|alt=Slowly]]; at leisure, without haste.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With delay, [[m|en|tardily]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Without emotion, coolly, [[m|en|calmly]];^(OLD 2012) ''lentē ferre'', to take calmly.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lentus]]

+ * [[lentitudo|alt=lentitūdō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}