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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly an imitative adjective with internal gemination (similar to crassus, grossus, gibber),[1][2] or from a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Polish błagi and Lithuanian blogas.[3]
Pronunciation
Adjective
flaccus (feminine flacca, neuter flaccum); first/second-declension adjective
- flabby, flaccid, hanging down
- flap-eared, having wide or large flat ears
- Synonym: plautus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “flaccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flaccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flaccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “flaccus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 141; 223-4
- ^ per OED
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bh(e)lāg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 124-125