lascivus

Latin

Etymology

From a Proto-Italic *lasko-, itself from Proto-Indo-European *lh₂s-ko- (“desirous”), from *leh₂s- (“to be eager”) (though others, including Beekes and Kroonen, have expressed doubt about the existence of the root and its assigned descendants), + -īvus (“adjectival suffix”). Related to Old Irish lainn (“eager”), Ancient Greek λῐλαίομαι (lĭlaíomai, “to desire strongly”), Lithuanian lokšnùs (“sensitive”), Proto-Slavic *laskavъ (“flattering”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

lascīvus (feminine lascīva, neuter lascīvum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. wanton, playful, frisky
  2. lustful, licentious, lascivious, lewd
  3. (of style) luxuriant

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative lascīvus lascīva lascīvum lascīvī lascīvae lascīva
genitive lascīvī lascīvae lascīvī lascīvōrum lascīvārum lascīvōrum
dative lascīvō lascīvae lascīvō lascīvīs
accusative lascīvum lascīvam lascīvum lascīvōs lascīvās lascīva
ablative lascīvō lascīvā lascīvō lascīvīs
vocative lascīve lascīva lascīvum lascīvī lascīvae lascīva

Descendants

  • Catalan: lasciu
  • French: lascif
  • Galician: lascivo
  • → German: lasziv
  • Italian: lascivo
  • Occitan: lasciu
  • Romanian: lasciv
  • Portuguese: lascivo
  • Spanish: lascivo

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lascīvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328

Further reading

  • “lascivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lascivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "lascivus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lascivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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