λαγαρός

Generally derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g- (“weak, faint”) and compared with λαγαίω (lagaíō, “to release”), λάγνος (lágnos, “lascivious”), λαγών (lagṓn, “flank”), λήγω (lḗgō, “to stop, cease”) and λωγάνιον (lōgánion, “dewlap of oxen”) within Greek. Other Indo-European cognates are Latin laxus (“loose”), English slack, Tocharian A slākkär (“sad”) and Sanskrit श्लक्ष्ण (ślakṣṇa, “tender, soft”).

λᾰγᾰρός • (lagarós) m (feminine λᾰγᾰρᾱ́, neuter λᾰγᾰρόν); first/second declension

1. hollow, sunken, flattish
2. slack, loose
3. thin, narrow, lanky
4. (of plasters) porous, absorbent

• “λαγαρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λαγαρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λαγαρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN