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Lent: Lent: [OE] The etymological meaning of Lent is ‘long days’. It comes from *langgitīnaz, a prehistoric West Germanic compound formed from *lanngaz ‘long’ and an element *tīnadenoting ‘day’. This signified originally ‘spring’, an allusion to the lengthening days at that time of year. It passed into Old English as lencten, which became Middle English lenten, but in the 13th century the -en was dropped from the noun, leaving Lenten to function as an adjective. By this time too the secular sense ‘spring’ was fast dying out, having been usurped by the application of Lent to the period between Ash Wednesday and Easter.
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Lent (n.): late 14c., short for Lenten (n.) "forty days before Easter" (early 12c.), from Old English lencten "springtime, spring," the season, also "the fast of Lent," from West Germanic *langa-tinaz "long-days" (cognate with Old Saxon lentin, Middle Dutch lenten, Old High German lengizin manoth), from *lanngaz (root of Old English lang "long;" see long (adj.)) + *tina-, a root meaning "day" (compare Gothic sin-teins "daily"), cognate with Old Church Slavonic dini, Lithuanian diena, Latin dies "day" (see diurnal).

the compound probably refers to the increasing daylight. Compare similar form evolution in Dutch lente (Middle Dutch lentin), German Lenz (Old High German lengizin) "spring." Church sense of "period between Ash Wednesday and Easter" is peculiar to English.

词态变化

1. Somebody else lent me a pump and helped me mend the puncture.: 别人借给我一个打气筒，又帮我补好了轮胎。

2. Enthusiastic applause lent a sense of occasion to the proceedings.: 热烈的掌声给活动平添了几分隆重的色彩。

5. My parents lent me the money. Otherwise, I couldn"t have afforded the trip.: 我父母借钱给我了。否则，我可付不起这次旅费。

lend 借给

lent (基督教的)四旬斋...

Lent term 大学春秋学期...

sum lent on a mortgage 押款,已提供押款金额...

Lent term 大学春秋学期

lent lily phr. 白色百合花

lent segregation 排液分离

lent fever 【医】四旬热, 伤寒

sum lent on a mortgage 押款，已提供押款金额

money lent and lodged 【经】贷出与寄存货币

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