The corpus record — Latin

Lento2

Lento2 · v. a

to make flexible, to bend

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Where it lives

Divus Claudius 1 · 3.37/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Philippicae 7 · 1.33/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Naturalis Historia 6 · 0.15/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. lento — Lewis & Short

lento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,

I to make flexible, to bend (poet. and in postclass. prose).

I Lit.: arcus lentare et fundere glandes, i. e. to draw a bow, Stat. Achill. 1, 436; so, arcus, id. Th. 1, 703: Gortynia cornua, id. ib. 3, 587.—

B Transf., to bend, i. e. ply the oar: Trinacriā lentandus remus in undā, Verg. A. 3, 384: remos, Sen. Agm. 437.—

II Trop.

A Of time, to draw out, prolong, lengthen, protract: lentare fervida bella, Sil. 8, 11: fata Romana lentata, Treb. Claud. 6.—

B To moderate: lentatus vapor, Sid. Carm. 22, 191.

2. Lento — Lewis & Short

Lento, ōnis, m.lentus, sluggard,

I a Roman surname: Caesennius Lento, Cic. Phil. 11, 6, 3; 12, 9, 23.

In the wild

Lentone Cicero, Philippicae 13.2
lentandus Vergil, Aeneid 3.384
lentem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.17.p9
Lentone Cicero, Philippicae 13.37
lentem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 18.30.p4
lentata Historia Augusta, Divus Claudius 6

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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