Adjective: lento
Hyphenation: len‧to
| Singular m. | lento |
| Singular f. | lenta |
| Plural m. | lentos |
| Plural f. | lentas |
Sample Sentences
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Por favor, habla más lento. (Please, talk slower.)
Adjectives inflected like lento
periurbano,
desestacionalizado,
cervantesco,
atomístico,
multígrafo,
meseteño,
arriesgado,
metafórico,
extintivo,
metafísico,
megadiverso,
autotrófico,
francoarenoso,
gibareño,
eslávico,
noviolento,
inescrupuloso,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
carpenteriano, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lentus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish form liento (“humid, wet”), which has a meaning also found in some senses of Galician and Portuguese lento, Asturian llentu; cf. also Valencian Catalan llenta. See: Latin Adjectives '
lentus', Portuguese Adjectives '
lento', Asturian Adjectives '
llentu'.
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