From en.wiktionary.org:
[lent]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology 1
[en] Shortened form of [en], from [en], from [en], as in a season into which
days [en] as it progresses. Related to [de] and [nl].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A period of the ecclesiastical year preceding Easter , traditionally involving temporary abstention from certain food s and pleasure s.
1. [en] The 40 day s preceding Lazarus Saturday, the Saturday preceding Holy Week .
2. [en] The 46 day s preceding Easter , reckon ed as 40 day s by excluding Sunday s.
2. [en] [en] .
3. [en] [pi] , period of the Buddhist lent during the rainy season
***** Synonyms
- [Christianity] [en] , Lent season, [en] [en] , season of Lent, [en]
- [Eastern Christianity] [en]
- [educational] [en]
***** Hypernyms
- [Christianity] [en] [en] , [en] [rare]
***** Hyponyms
- [Roman Catholicism] [en] [1st day] , [en] [1st Sunday] , [en] [2nd Sunday] , [en] [3rd Sunday] , [en] [4th Sunday] , [en] [5th Sunday] , [en] [6th Sunday] , [en] [last day] [see terms for synonyms]
- [Eastern Orthodoxy] [en] [1st day] , [en] [last day]
***** Translations
[Christian period of penitence before Easter]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup] , [rup]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii] , [aii]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] ; [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Farefare: [gur]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh] , [izh]
- Irish: [ga] < !--capital letter is correct!-->
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Konkani: [kok]
- Korean: [ko]
- Ladin: [lld]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt] < !-- capitalization? -->
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Moore: [mos]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi] , [yi]
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*** Etymology 2
Two main origins:
- Reduced form of [en] , a habitational surname for someone from [nl] , in Gelderland .
- Perhaps an Americanized spelling of [en] , from a personal name related to the noun [de] .
**** Proper noun
[s]
1. [en] .
***** Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, _Lent_ is the 7652 <sup> nd </sup> most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4341 individuals. _Lent_ is most common among White (93.16%) individuals.
*** Further reading
- [R:en:DAFN]
[en] [en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
First attested as _in lente_ in 1196. Etymology [nl]. Potentially derived
from [gem-pro], from [gmw-pro], or dialectal [nl]. Compare [nl] and [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** Proper noun
[n]
1. [nl]
**** Derived terms
- [nl]
- [nl]
*** References
- [R:nl:NPV]