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lenta

lenta is a Latin form of lentus, meaning “slow, sluggish; pliant, tough; calm, indifferent”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 99 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 5.18.4: … o tui Bruti rem sic ago ut suam ipse non ageret. sed iam exhibeo pupillum neque defendo; sunt enim negotia et lenta et inania. faciam tamen satis tibi quidem cui difficilius est quam ipsi; sed certe satis faciam utrique.

Vergil, Eclogues 5.16: Lenta salix quantum pallenti cedit olivae,

All forms of lentus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.