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Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Celtic *lentos (“bend”), describing the bend in the Danube where the original Celtic settlement was placed.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Lentia f sg (genitive Lentiae); first declension
- Linz (a city in modern Austria)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Derived terms
References
- Lentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Lentia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly