English
lentous
Lentous comes from Latin lentus ‘sticky, tenacious’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElentus‘sticky, tenacious’
- Englishearliest quotation 1650lentous
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElentus‘sticky, tenacious’
- Englishearliest quotation 1650lentous
Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “spawn of a lentous and transparent body”.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *lentos ‘soft, smooth, pliant’
through Latin lentus ‘sticky, tenacious’
Today it means
adj viscid; viscous; tenacious
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lentus / lentous