lente
Meaning
- (feminine) lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
- (feminine) lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye)
- (feminine) lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
- (feminine,figuratively) lens (a way of looking, literally or figuratively, at something)
- (feminine) a fossil or deposit between two strata
- (abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,feminine) Clipping of lente de conta(c)to.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
len‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlẽ.t͡ʃi/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
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