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Latin
Etymology
From lentus (“slow”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
lentulus (feminine lentula, neuter lentulum); first/second-declension adjective
- (rare): diminutive of lentus (“slow”)
68 BCE – 44 BCE,
Cicero,
Epistulae ad Atticum 10.11.2:
- Vides enim profecto angustias. Curari tamen ea tibi utique iubet. An existimas illum in isto genere lentulum aut restrictum? Nemo est minus. De fratre satis.
- 1913 translation by E. O. Winstedt
- For of course you see his straits. However he has ordered the sum to be paid to your account. Perhaps you suppose that he is slow or close-fisted in money matters. No one is less so. But enough about my brother.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
References
- “lentulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lentulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “lentulus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
- “lentulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lentulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray