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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lakʷ- (“to ensnare”),[1] with no certain cognates in any other Indo-European languages; possibly Proto-Indo-European *leh₁k- (“string, twig, tendril”). Alternative theories link the word to Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (“to bend; to twine”).
Pronunciation
Noun
laqueus m (genitive laqueī); second declension
- noose
- snare, gin, trap
- (figuratively) chains, catena
- Synonyms: restis, fūniculus, līnum, vinculum, nervus
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “laqueus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laqueus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “laqueus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- laqueus 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)
- laqueus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “laqueus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321