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Latin
Etymology
From saliō (“I leap, jump”) + -āx (“inclined to”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
salāx (genitive salācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (especially of male animals) prone to leaping
- salacious, lustful, lecherous, lascivious
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 4.771–772:
- ‘sitque salāx ariēs, conceptaque sēmina coniūnx
reddat, et in stabulō multa sit agna meō.’- ‘‘And may the ram be lustful, and may his mate return the seeds having been received,
and in my stable may there be many a lamb.’’
(A shepherd’s prayer to Pales.)
- lust-provoking, provocative
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “salax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “salax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- salax 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)
- salax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.