Lento vs. Lent

In a slow tempo. Used chiefly as a direction.

Lent (Latin: Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is a religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later; depending on the Christian denomination and local custom, Lent concludes either on the evening of Maundy Thursday, or at sundown on Holy Saturday, when the Easter Vigil is celebrated. Regardless, Lenten practices are properly maintained until the evening of Holy Saturday.

A lento passage or movement.

(in the Christian Church) the period preceding Easter, which is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness. In the Western Church it runs from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday, and so includes forty weekdays.

(music) Slow (45–60 bpm).

Past tense and past participle of lend.

(music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly.

A 40-day period of fasting and penitence observed by many Christians in preparation for Easter. In Western churches, Lent lasts from Ash Wednesday until Easter, usually excepting Sundays.

Slow; in slow time; slowly; - rarely written lente.

simple past tense and past participle of lend

(of tempo) slow

A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.

in music;

Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

See Lento.

a period of 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday