lentor

English

Alternative forms

Noun

lentor (usually uncountable, plural lentors)

  1. slowness, sluggishness
  2. (obsolete, physics) viscosity
    • 1744, George Berkeley, Siris
      There is a lentor or smoothness in the blood of healthy strong people […]
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
      […] she walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water […]

Latin

Verb

lentor

  1. 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
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