lento
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of lento
1715–25; < Italian < Latin lentus slow
Vocabulary lists containing lento
Example Sentences
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The sounds of D-minor resonate from an ambient synth pad before migrating lento to A-minor.
From Time ● Aug. 9, 2017
It's possible that the lento rhythms of the film are dictated by the need to stretch what is really little more than an art-historical anecdote into a full-scale movie.
From Time Magazine Archive
It bothered almost nobody until Bandleader Isham Jones recorded it in a haunting lento.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here are pomp and pageantry, cockney airs, the chimes of Big Ben, and a luminous lento movement that the composer called "Bloomsbury Square on a November afternoon."
From Time Magazine Archive
You’re beginning, are you?” cried Doña Consolacion, with savage joy, and from lento, she passed to allegro vivace.
From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
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