lento

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For example to describe the railgun in Quake: "este weapon es muy lento".

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(of tempo) slow

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adjective

(of tempo) slow

adverb

in music; "Play this lento, please"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for lento.

adjective

(of tempo) slow

adverb

in music; "Play this lento, please"

Example sentences

For example to describe the railgun in Quake: "este weapon es muy lento".

To refer to a slow Internet connection, we would say "Internet va lento" or "me va lento Internet".

""Philology is that venerable art which demands of its votaries one thing above all: to go aside, to take time, to become still, to become slow – it is a goldsmith's art and connoisseurship of the word which has nothing but delicate, cautious work to do and achieves nothing if it does not achieve it lento.

" The people you're thinking of largely never bothered to read him, let alone read him well:> Nowadays it is not only my habit, it is also to my taste—a malicious taste, perhaps?—no longer to write anything which does not reduce to despair every sort of man who is “in a hurry.” For philology is that venerable art which demands of its votaries one thing above all: to go aside, to take time, to become still, to become slow—it is a goldsmith’s art and connoisseurship of the word which has nothing but delicate, cautious work to do and achieves nothing if it does not achieve it lento.