lencse

First attested in c. 1325. Borrowed from South Slavic. Compare Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta), Bulgarian леща (lešta), Macedonian леќа (leḱa), Serbo-Croatian leća, Slovene leča. First used in the sense of plant. Later, after German influence, it also emerged as a medical term (in anatomy) [1787] and in optics [1799].^[1] Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *lęťa, being probably a loanword from an unidentified source.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛnt͡ʃɛ]
• Hyphenation: len‧cse
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃɛ

lencse (plural lencsék)

1. lentil (seed used as food)
2. lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)

• → Carpathian Rusyn: ленча (lenča)

• lencse in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN