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English
Noun
lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)
- (obsolete, chiefly medicine) Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
1797 September 1, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana:I find there was no wrong Presentation, only a Lentor in the pains perhaps […] .
1744, George Berkeley, Siris:There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]
- Slowness, sluggishness.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:[S]he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […] .
Latin
Verb
lentor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of lentō
References
- “lentor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lentor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.