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
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
She recites poetry where she should radiate it; and goes through the role as though following a score marked presto or lento, ff. or pp.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Sempre lento malinconico assai—always slowly and in a very melancholy style.
From Music Notation and Terminology by Karl Wilson Gehrkens
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