lentor
English
Alternative forms
- lentour (obsolete)
Noun
lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)
- (obsolete, chiefly medicine) Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
- 1797, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana, 1 September:
- 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 […]
- 1797, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Thraliana, 1 September:
- Slowness, sluggishness.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- [S]he walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […] .
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
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