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lentando

lentando is the archaic form of rallentando.

Meaning of rallentando

Adjective

rallentando (not comparable)

  1. slackening; becoming slower (used as a musical direction).

Origin of lentando

From Italian lentando, present participle of lentare (“to make slow”).

Questions about lentando

What is lentando the archaic form of?
Lentando is the archaic form of rallentando.

Words near lentando in the dictionary

  1. Lent lilies
  2. Lent lily
  3. Lent term
  4. Lent terms
  5. lental
  6. lentando
  7. lente
  8. lentectomies
  9. lentectomise
  10. lentectomised
  11. lentectomize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lentando (page history and authors); rallentando (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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