lassus

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English

Noun

lassus

  1. plural of lassu

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lh₁d-to-s, verbal adjective from the root *leh₁d- (“to be tired”) +‎ *-tós.[1][2] Compare Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

lassus (feminine lassa, neuter lassum, comparative lassior, superlative lassissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. weary, faint, tired
  2. exhausted, used up

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative lassus lassa lassum lassī lassae lassa
genitive lassī lassae lassī lassōrum lassārum lassōrum
dative lassō lassae lassō lassīs
accusative lassum lassam lassum lassōs lassās lassa
ablative lassō lassā lassō lassīs
vocative lasse lassa lassum lassī lassae lassa

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: llas, las
  • French: las
  • Galician: laso
  • Italian: lasso
  • Portuguese: lasso
  • Spanish: laso

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “lē(i)-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 666
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lassus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 328–329

Further reading

  • “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lassus 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)
  • lassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle French

Etymology

Old French lassus, from la (“there”) +‎ sus (“upon; on top of”).

Preposition

lassus

  1. up there

References

  • lassus on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (lassus)
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