lencse
Hungarian
Etymology
[around 1325] Borrowed from South Slavic. Compare Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta), Bulgarian леща (lešta), Macedonian леќа (leḱa), Serbo-Croatian leća, Slovene leča. First used in the sense of plant. Later, after German influence, it also emerged as a medical term (in anatomy) [1787] and in optics [1799].[1] Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *lęťa, being probably a loanword from an unidentified source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɛnt͡ʃɛ]
- Hyphenation: len‧cse
Noun
lencse (plural lencsék)
- lentil (seed used as food)
- lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | lencse | lencsék |
| accusative | lencsét | lencséket |
| dative | lencsének | lencséknek |
| instrumental | lencsével | lencsékkel |
| causal-final | lencséért | lencsékért |
| translative | lencsévé | lencsékké |
| terminative | lencséig | lencsékig |
| essive-formal | lencseként | lencsékként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | lencsében | lencsékben |
| superessive | lencsén | lencséken |
| adessive | lencsénél | lencséknél |
| illative | lencsébe | lencsékbe |
| sublative | lencsére | lencsékre |
| allative | lencséhez | lencsékhez |
| elative | lencséből | lencsékből |
| delative | lencséről | lencsékről |
| ablative | lencsétől | lencséktől |
| Possessive forms of lencse | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | lencsém | lencséim |
| 2nd person sing. | lencséd | lencséid |
| 3rd person sing. | lencséje | lencséi |
| 1st person plural | lencsénk | lencséink |
| 2nd person plural | lencsétek | lencséitek |
| 3rd person plural | lencséjük | lencséik |
Derived terms
- kontaktlencse
- lencsecsont
- szemlencse
Descendants
- → Rusyn: ленча (lenča)
References
- Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN