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Lentor vs Lector - What's the difference?

lentor | lector |

As nouns the difference between lentor and lector

is that lentor is slowness, sluggishness while lector is a lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.

lentor

English

Alternative forms

* lentour (obsolete)

Noun

(-)
  • slowness, sluggishness
  • "...she walked through dilating space with the lentor of one walking under water..." — Nabokov's Lolita, 1955
  • (obsolete, physics) viscosity
    • ----

    lector

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lectour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service
  • A public lecturer or reader at some universities
  • (historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers, appointed by a trade union

    • Related terms

    * lection * lectionary * lectern

    Anagrams

    * colter ----