λαπαρός

The formation is similar to λαγαρός (lagarós), πλαδαρός (pladarós) and χαλαρός (khalarós). A basic primary verb may have been retained in ἔλαψα (élapsa, “weakened, destroyed”). It is usually assumed that λαπάσσω (lapássō) is an extension of this, perhaps after μαλάσσω (malássō, “to make soft”). In the sense to destroy, λαπάσσω (lapássō) agrees with ἀλαπάζω (alapázō, “to destroy”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin in view of the prothetic vowel. Close to Albanian laps.

λᾰπᾰρός • (lăpărós) m (feminine λᾰπᾰρᾱ́, neuter λᾰπᾰρόν); first/second declension

1. slack, loose (of the bowels)
2. hollow

• “λαπαρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λαπαρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λαπαρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN