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English
Noun
lassus
- 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
- weary, faint, tired
- exhausted, used up
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “lē(i)-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 666
- ^ 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
- 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)