lento
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of lento
1715–25; < Italian < Latin lentus slow
Vocabulary lists containing lento
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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 bothered almost nobody until Bandleader Isham Jones recorded it in a haunting lento.
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
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
The full pathos and passion of the lento episode of first scene is heard in brief, vivid touches, and is followed by the same ominous blast with ring of horn, as in the first picture.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
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