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laxus

laxus

Latin

Adjective

laxus m ‎(feminine laxa, neuter laxum); first/second declension

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	laxus	laxa	laxum		laxī	laxae	laxa
genitive	laxī	laxae	laxī		laxōrum	laxārum	laxōrum
dative	laxō	laxae	laxō		laxīs
accusative	laxum	laxam	laxum		laxōs	laxās	laxa
ablative	laxō	laxā	laxō		laxīs
vocative	laxe	laxa	laxum		laxī	laxae	laxa

comparative: laxior, superlative: laxissimus

Derived terms

Descendants

English: lax
German: lax
Italian: lasso
Romanian: lax
Spanish: laja, laxo

References

laxus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
laxus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “laxus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill