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Where does “lentidão” come from?

lentidão (Portuguese) comes from Latin lentitudo, from Latin lentus, from Proto-Indo-European lentos.

lentidão (Portuguese): slowness

Definitions

  1. slowness

Ancestry of “lentidão”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinlentitudosluggishness, dullness; apathy, insensibility
2Latinlentussticky, tenacious; slow, sluggish; flexible,...
3Proto-Indo-Europeanlentos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European lentos →