Where does “lent” come from?
lent (French) comes from Italian lento, from Spanish lento, from Galician -ura, from Latin -ura, from Latin -tūra.
lent (French): slow
Ancestry of “lent”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | lento | slow |
| 2 | Spanish | lento | slow |
| 3 | Galician | -ura | -ness |
| 4 | Latin | -ura | Suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives |
| 5 | Latin | -tūra | — |
Words derived from “lent”