laxo
See also: laxó
Catalan
Verb
laxo
- first-person singular present indicative of laxar
Latin
Etymology
From laxus (“loose, open”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫak.soː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlak.so]
Verb
laxō (present infinitive laxāre, perfect active laxāvī, supine laxātum); first conjugation
- to extend, expand
- to open, make wide
- to undo, release
- (figuratively) to lighten, relieve, free
- to relax, moderate, weaken
- to lessen, abate
Conjugation
Conjugation of laxō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
- laxāmentum
- laxātiō
- laxātīvus
- relaxō
Related terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: lëshoj
- Aragonese: deixar
- Aromanian: alas, las, alãsari, lãsari
- Corsican: lascià
- Friulian: lassâ
- Istriot: lassà
- Italian: lasciare, lassare
- Ladin: lascer
- Ligurian: lasciâ
- Lombard: lassà
- Neapolitan: lassare
- Old French: lessier, laissier, laschier
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Piedmontese: lassé
- Romanian: lăsa, lăsare
- Romansch: laschar, lascher, schar
- Sardinian: lassai, lassare, dassare
- Sicilian: lassari, dassari
- Venetan: lasar
- Borrowings:
References
- “laxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “laxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- laxo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the price of corn is going down: annona laxatur, levatur, vilior fit
- (ambiguous) to fight in open order: laxatis (opp. confertis) ordinibus pugnare
- the price of corn is going down: annona laxatur, levatur, vilior fit
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaɡso/ [ˈlaɣ̞.so]
- Rhymes: -aɡso
- Syllabification: la‧xo
Etymology 1
Adjective
laxo (feminine laxa, masculine plural laxos, feminine plural laxas)
- (formal) lax
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
laxo
- first-person singular present indicative of laxar
Further reading
- “laxo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024