lentiln.

Brit.

/ˈlɛnt(ɪ)l/, U.S.

/ˈlɛn(t)l/

Forms: Middle English–1500s, 1700s lentille, Middle English lentylle, 1500s lintell, lyntell(e, 1500s–1700s lintel, 1500s–1800s lentile, 1600s lentill, lintile, lintle, Middle English– lentil.

Etymology: < French lentille < popular Latin *lentīcula (= classical Latin lenticula ), diminutive of lent- : see lens n.The other Romance forms represent the classical Latin word with unchanged quantity: Spanish lenteja, Portuguese lentilha, Italian lenticchia.

a. Chiefly plural, in early use occasionally collective singular. The seed of a leguminous plant ( Ervum lens, Lens esculenta); also the plant itself, cultivated for food in European countries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil

lentila1325

chicha1382

Cicer1382

till1398

chit1541

chickpea1542

ram-ciche1597

ram's head ciche1601

chickny pea1693

gram1702

garbanzo1712

fasels-

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil

lentila1325

chicha1382

Cicer1382

lent1382

till1398

chickpea1542

chit1559

ram-ciche1597

fen lentil1601

ram's head ciche1601

lentil-pulse1660

chickny pea1693

gram1702

garbanzo1712

chana1838

lint1888

chana dal1895

fasels-

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1488 Iacob an time him seð a mete, Ðat man callen lentil gete.

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 664/25 Hec lens, lentylle.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viij^v Lentilles are sowen in corne fieldes and growe as Tares do.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 153 Horssecorne, I meane, beanes, otes, tares and lintels [etc.].

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xxiii. 11 A piece of ground full of lentiles .

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. i. ii. 504 The Burre and the Lintle cannot endure one another [L. lappa lenti adversatur].

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 331/1 The dreggs of Chaff, and the small Seeds of Tares & Lintels which are in it.

1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 260 Spots, which are here sometimes as big as a lentille.

1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) Add. 47 Beans, pease, vetches, lintels.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 159 Our black bread, and black puddings, and lentils!

1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 58 His corn was exhausted, and his men were obliged to have recourse to lentils!

1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. xv. 222 [In the bazaar] there were booths for Egyptian lentiles.

†b. A name for duckweed n. (Lemna). More fully, water lentil [= French lentilles d'eau] . Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies

endemetea1387

duckweedc1440

frog's foot1526

greens1526

duck's meat1538

water lentil1548

grain1578

fen lentil1601

Pistia1754

lemna1789

lentil-dew1800

water lettuce1847

Jenny Greenteeth1852

creed1880

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viij^v Lens palustris..is called in english Duckes meate or water Lentilles, in duch wasser linse.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 612 Water lintels, which the Romanes take for a token of death and mourning.

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 355 Kanker to kil, apply water Lentils with Barrows greace.

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 680 Ducks meate..some terme it after the Greek water Lentils.

†2. plural. Freckles or spots on the skin. (Cf. lentigo n.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > freckle

freckenc1386

frecklec1400

lentigoc1400

specklec1440

sprote?c1450

fernticle1483

mase1527

chit1552

lentils1558

summerfold1668

summer spot1685

form-speckle1702

ephelis1756

heat-spot1822

1558–68 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes 30 There is neither spotte nor lyntell or any kynde of redde burgeons in the face of a man, the whiche being washed with this water..will not go out.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxxiv. 365 The iuyce of the roote [of Thapsia] with honie, taketh away all lentils and other spots of the face.

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 118 Wheate flower..clenseth the face from lentills and spots.

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana ii. iv. 889/2 The Face, or other parts of the Skin troubled with Lentils.

†3. A lentil-shaped metal disc. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 365 This pendulum, which is no other than a simple steel rod fixed to a lentille, made at Para 98740 oscillations in 24 hours of mean time.

4. A lens-shaped bulb in an apparatus for rectifying alcohol. (In modern dictionaries.)

5. Geology. A mass of rock distinct in character and having the shape of a bi-convex lens; spec. one regarded as a subdivision of a formation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > intrusion > lens

lentil1895

lenticle1898

lens1903

1895 J. W. Powell in A. Keith Descr. Knoxville Sheet (U.S. Geol. Survey Atlas) The kinds of rocks are indicated..by appropriate symbols... The following are generally used..Limestones..Lentils in strata.

1903 Amer. Sci. May 344 In the southwestern belt there is a line of Devonian limestone lentils.

1910 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 19 177 The gray sandstone of the Grès Noirs more than 20 feet thick, containing a thin irregular lentil of coal.

1953 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 37 2410 Formations may be subdivided into members, lentils, ‘tongues’, beds, et cetera.

1970 Earth-Sci. Rev. 6 275 Examples of informal rock units are:..(b) beds (e.g., quarry layer, coal beds, oil sands, tongues, lentils, etc.).

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

lentil-broth n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses

lentil-pottage1649

bean-broth1702

pea soup1703

pease-soup1706

lentil-broth1820

lentil-soup1820

bean-soup1837

1820 W. Tooke in tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 553 (note) The lentil-broth was boiled and served up with fowls and vegetables in it.

lentil-form n.

lentil-ore n.

ΚΠ

1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals Lentil-ore, an early name for liroconite, because its crystals are lentil-shaped.

lentil-porridge n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]

polentaOE

papelotec1400

pottagea1500

crowdy-mowdy?a1513

drowsen1519

pease porridge?1548

plum pottage1574

sowens1582

grout1587

orgementa1590

plum porridge1591

loblolly1597

pease pottage1600

girt-brew1620

washbrew1620

lentil-porridge1622

hominy1630

porridgea1643

samp1643

nettle-pottage1659

nettle-porridge1661

crowdie1668

suppawn1670

mush1671

rockahominy1674

stirabouta1691

praiseach1698

sagamité1698

brochan1700

atole1716

burgoo1750

purry1751

fungee1789

pepper porridge1803

kasha1808

mamaliga1808

skilligalee1819

bean-porridge1821

skilly1839

sap porridge1842

corn-mush1846

oatmeal mush1850

pap1858

ugali1860

oatmeal1873

mealie-meal1880

mealie-pap1880

uji1889

sadza1899

nsima1907

putu papa1910

posho1927

putu1949

ogi1957

whey-porridge-

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 275 Vpon fish-dayes we had a messe of lentill porrige.

lentil-pottage n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses

lentil-pottage1649

bean-broth1702

pea soup1703

pease-soup1706

lentil-broth1820

lentil-soup1820

bean-soup1837

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 27 He prefers a dish of red lentill pottage before a venison.

lentil-powder n. (see quots.).

ΚΠ

1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. ii Lentil-powder, Pharm., a powder made of the pulverized seeds of the lentil.

† lentil-pulse n. Obsolete = 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil

lentila1325

chicha1382

Cicer1382

lent1382

till1398

chickpea1542

chit1559

ram-ciche1597

fen lentil1601

ram's head ciche1601

lentil-pulse1660

chickny pea1693

gram1702

garbanzo1712

chana1838

lint1888

chana dal1895

fasels-

1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. (at cited word) A Lentil pulse, or lentle; Lentille.

lentil-seed n.

ΚΠ

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 102 Certayne smaule graynes of golde no bygger then lintell seedes.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 84 Take thereof the quantity of a lintell seed.

lentil-shell n. Zoology the genus Ervillia.

ΚΠ

1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 313 Ervilia, Turton. Lentil-shell.

lentil-soup n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses

lentil-pottage1649

bean-broth1702

pea soup1703

pease-soup1706

lentil-broth1820

lentil-soup1820

bean-soup1837

1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 553 That the cook may..from inadvertence pour the fish-brine into their lentil-soup.

C2.

lentil-grey adj.

ΚΠ

1900 Daily News 9 Apr. 5/6 Lady A...was dressed in lentil-grey cloth.

lentil-shaped adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > double convex

lenticular1658

lentiform1706

lentular1761

lentile1763

lentil-shaped1796

lenticular-shaped1835

lentoid1879

lensoid1930

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 11 Tubercles lentil-shaped.

C3.

† lentil-dew n. [ < French lentille d'eau] Obsolete = sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies

endemetea1387

duckweedc1440

frog's foot1526

greens1526

duck's meat1538

water lentil1548

grain1578

fen lentil1601

Pistia1754

lemna1789

lentil-dew1800

water lettuce1847

Jenny Greenteeth1852

creed1880

1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 345 Lentil-dew, a name given to the duckweed..in old herbals.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lentil
释义	lentiln. Brit. /ˈlɛnt(ɪ)l/, U.S. /ˈlɛn(t)l/ Forms: Middle English–1500s, 1700s lentille, Middle English lentylle, 1500s lintell, lyntell(e, 1500s–1700s lintel, 1500s–1800s lentile, 1600s lentill, lintile, lintle, Middle English– lentil. Etymology: < French lentille < popular Latin lentīcula (= classical Latin lenticula* ), diminutive of lent- : see lens n.The other Romance forms represent the classical Latin word with unchanged quantity: Spanish lenteja, Portuguese lentilha, Italian lenticchia. 1. a. Chiefly plural, in early use occasionally collective singular. The seed of a leguminous plant ( Ervum lens, Lens esculenta); also the plant itself, cultivated for food in European countries. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil lentila1325 chicha1382 Cicer1382 till1398 chit1541 chickpea1542 ram-ciche1597 ram's head ciche1601 chickny pea1693 gram1702 garbanzo1712 fasels- the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil lentila1325 chicha1382 Cicer1382 lent1382 till1398 chickpea1542 chit1559 ram-ciche1597 fen lentil1601 ram's head ciche1601 lentil-pulse1660 chickny pea1693 gram1702 garbanzo1712 chana1838 lint1888 chana dal1895 fasels- a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1488 Iacob an time him seð a mete, Ðat man callen lentil gete. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 664/25 Hec lens, lentylle. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viij^v Lentilles are sowen in corne fieldes and growe as Tares do. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 153 Horssecorne, I meane, beanes, otes, tares and lintels [etc.]. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. xxiii. 11 A piece of ground full of lentiles . View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. i. i. ii. 504 The Burre and the Lintle cannot endure one another [L. lappa lenti adversatur]. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 331/1 The dreggs of Chaff, and the small Seeds of Tares & Lintels which are in it. 1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 260 Spots, which are here sometimes as big as a lentille. 1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) Add. 47 Beans, pease, vetches, lintels. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 159 Our black bread, and black puddings, and lentils! 1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 58 His corn was exhausted, and his men were obliged to have recourse to lentils! 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. xv. 222 [In the bazaar] there were booths for Egyptian lentiles. †b. A name for duckweed n. (Lemna). More fully, water lentil [= French lentilles d'eau] . Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies endemetea1387 duckweedc1440 frog's foot1526 greens1526 duck's meat1538 water lentil1548 grain1578 fen lentil1601 Pistia1754 lemna1789 lentil-dew1800 water lettuce1847 Jenny Greenteeth1852 creed1880 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. D.viij^v Lens palustris..is called in english Duckes meate or water Lentilles, in duch wasser linse. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 612 Water lintels, which the Romanes take for a token of death and mourning. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 355 Kanker to kil, apply water Lentils with Barrows greace. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 680 Ducks meate..some terme it after the Greek water Lentils. †2. plural. Freckles or spots on the skin. (Cf. lentigo n.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > freckle freckenc1386 frecklec1400 lentigoc1400 specklec1440 sprote?c1450 fernticle1483 mase1527 chit1552 lentils1558 summerfold1668 summer spot1685 form-speckle1702 ephelis1756 heat-spot1822 1558–68 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes 30 There is neither spotte nor lyntell or any kynde of redde burgeons in the face of a man, the whiche being washed with this water..will not go out. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. xxxiv. 365 The iuyce of the roote [of Thapsia] with honie, taketh away all lentils and other spots of the face. 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 118 Wheate flower..clenseth the face from lentills and spots. 1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana ii. iv. 889/2 The Face, or other parts of the Skin troubled with Lentils. †3. A lentil-shaped metal disc. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1771 Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 365 This pendulum, which is no other than a simple steel rod fixed to a lentille, made at Para 98740 oscillations in 24 hours of mean time. 4. A lens-shaped bulb in an apparatus for rectifying alcohol. (In modern dictionaries.) 5. Geology. A mass of rock distinct in character and having the shape of a bi-convex lens; spec. one regarded as a subdivision of a formation. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > intrusion > lens lentil1895 lenticle1898 lens1903 1895 J. W. Powell in A. Keith Descr. Knoxville Sheet (U.S. Geol. Survey Atlas) The kinds of rocks are indicated..by appropriate symbols... The following are generally used..Limestones..Lentils in strata. 1903 Amer. Sci. May 344 In the southwestern belt there is a line of Devonian limestone lentils. 1910 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 19 177 The gray sandstone of the Grès Noirs more than 20 feet thick, containing a thin irregular lentil of coal. 1953 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 37 2410 Formations may be subdivided into members, lentils, ‘tongues’, beds, et cetera. 1970 Earth-Sci. Rev. 6 275 Examples of informal rock units are:..(b) beds (e.g., quarry layer, coal beds, oil sands, tongues, lentils, etc.). Compounds C1. General attributive. lentil-broth n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses lentil-pottage1649 bean-broth1702 pea soup1703 pease-soup1706 lentil-broth1820 lentil-soup1820 bean-soup1837 1820 W. Tooke in tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 553 (note) The lentil-broth was boiled and served up with fowls and vegetables in it. lentil-form n. lentil-ore n. ΚΠ 1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals Lentil-ore, an early name for liroconite, because its crystals are lentil-shaped. lentil-porridge n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] polentaOE papelotec1400 pottagea1500 crowdy-mowdy?a1513 drowsen1519 pease porridge?1548 plum pottage1574 sowens1582 grout1587 orgementa1590 plum porridge1591 loblolly1597 pease pottage1600 girt-brew1620 washbrew1620 lentil-porridge1622 hominy1630 porridgea1643 samp1643 nettle-pottage1659 nettle-porridge1661 crowdie1668 suppawn1670 mush1671 rockahominy1674 stirabouta1691 praiseach1698 sagamité1698 brochan1700 atole1716 burgoo1750 purry1751 fungee1789 pepper porridge1803 kasha1808 mamaliga1808 skilligalee1819 bean-porridge1821 skilly1839 sap porridge1842 corn-mush1846 oatmeal mush1850 pap1858 ugali1860 oatmeal1873 mealie-meal1880 mealie-pap1880 uji1889 sadza1899 nsima1907 putu papa1910 posho1927 putu1949 ogi1957 whey-porridge- 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 275 Vpon fish-dayes we had a messe of lentill porrige. lentil-pottage n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses lentil-pottage1649 bean-broth1702 pea soup1703 pease-soup1706 lentil-broth1820 lentil-soup1820 bean-soup1837 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 27 He prefers a dish of red lentill pottage before a venison. lentil-powder n. (see quots.). ΚΠ 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. ii Lentil-powder, Pharm., a powder made of the pulverized seeds of the lentil. † lentil-pulse n. Obsolete = 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > chick-pea or lentil lentila1325 chicha1382 Cicer1382 lent1382 till1398 chickpea1542 chit1559 ram-ciche1597 fen lentil1601 ram's head ciche1601 lentil-pulse1660 chickny pea1693 gram1702 garbanzo1712 chana1838 lint1888 chana dal1895 fasels- 1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. (at cited word) A Lentil pulse, or lentle; Lentille. lentil-seed n. ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. iii. f. 102 Certayne smaule graynes of golde no bygger then lintell seedes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 84 Take thereof the quantity of a lintell seed. lentil-shell n. Zoology the genus Ervillia. ΚΠ 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 313 Ervilia, Turton. Lentil-shell. lentil-soup n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses lentil-pottage1649 bean-broth1702 pea soup1703 pease-soup1706 lentil-broth1820 lentil-soup1820 bean-soup1837 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 553 That the cook may..from inadvertence pour the fish-brine into their lentil-soup. C2. lentil-grey adj. ΚΠ 1900 Daily News 9 Apr. 5/6 Lady A...was dressed in lentil-grey cloth. lentil-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > convex > double convex lenticular1658 lentiform1706 lentular1761 lentile1763 lentil-shaped1796 lenticular-shaped1835 lentoid1879 lensoid1930 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 11 Tubercles lentil-shaped. C3. † lentil-dew n. [ < French lentille d'eau] Obsolete = sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > duckweeds and allies endemetea1387 duckweedc1440 frog's foot1526 greens1526 duck's meat1538 water lentil1548 grain1578 fen lentil1601 Pistia1754 lemna1789 lentil-dew1800 water lettuce1847 Jenny Greenteeth1852 creed1880 1800 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 345 Lentil-dew, a name given to the duckweed..in old herbals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1325
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