köken: From Middle High German linse, from Old High German linsa, likely a borrowing from an unidentified source. Compare Latin lēns, Lithuanian lęšis, and Old Church Slavonic лѧща (lęšta) sounding too similar for a coincidence, however different enough to prohibit reconstruction of a common PIE protoform. If ultimately a non-IE loanword, locating the source is virtually impossible because cultivation…
köken: Inherited from Old French lentille, from Vulgar Latin *lenticla, from syncopation of Latin lenticula. The "lens" meaning is because early lenses resembled lentils.
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *lenticla, from syncopation of Latin lenticula (compare French lentille, Italian lenticchia, Portuguese lentilha), diminutive form of lēns, lentis (“lentil”). Doublet of lentilla.
aile: ganarse las lentejas, lenteja de agua, lenteja turca, lentejar, lentejuela, venderse por un plato de lentejas
lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it) · lens (transparent crystalline structure in the eye) · lens (device which focuses or defocuses electron beams)
çekim: çoğul lentes
köken: Borrowed from Latin lentem (“lentil”), in Medieval Latin later taking on the sense of "lens".
lentil (seed used as food) · lens (object focusing or defocusing the light passing through it)
çekim: çoğul lencsék
köken: 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]. Common Slavic age form is reconstructed as Proto-Slavic *lęťa, being probably…
aile: kontaktlencse, lencsecsont, szemlencse
Etimoloji
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lęťa, a wanderwort cognate with Latin lēns.