lentor

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English

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Noun

lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)

  1. (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
  2. Slowness, sluggishness.
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
      he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water .

Latin

Verb

lentor

  1. 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.
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