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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βλαισός (blaisós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
blaesus (feminine blaesa, neuter blaesum); first/second-declension adjective
- lisping, stammering
86 CE – 103 CE,
Martial,
Epigrammata 5.34.7-8:
- inter tam veterēs lūdat lascīva patrōnōs
et nōmen blaesō garriat ōre meum.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “blaesus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- blaesus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.