The corpus record — Latin

flaccidus

flaccidus · adj

flabby

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

flaccĭdus — Lewis & Short

flaccĭdus, a, um, adj.flaccus,

I flabby, flaccid, pendulous (cf. marcidus).

I Lit.: aures, Col. 7, 6, 2; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 205: folium, id. 15, 30, 39, § 127: vela (with pendula), App. Flor. p. 365.—

II Trop., languid, feeble: flaccidiore turbine fertur, Lucr. 5, 632: argumentatio, Arn. 7, 251.

In the wild

flaccidas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.51.p1
flaccidos Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.8
flaccidiore Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.632
flaccidis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 7.6.2
flaccidoque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.30.p1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. flaccidus (scan p. 262; entry #4092).

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