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laqueus

loop of rope, noose, trap

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 2 · 27.14/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 4 · 10.98/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 2 · 8.64/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Phaedra 4 · 5.62/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Hamartigenia 3 · 4.69/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Ars Amatoria 6 · 4.03/10k
Avidius Cassius 1 · 3.83/10k
Octavia 2 · 3.82/10k

Densest 12 of 90 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. laqueus — de Vaan

laqueus 'loop of rope, noose, trap' [m. ο] (Ρ1.+) Derivatives: laqueatus 'panelled (of a roof)' (Enn.+); abloqueore 4to loosen and weed the soil' (Cato+), illaqueare 'to entangle' (Pac.+). Unlike WH and IEW, 1 do not regard a derivation from locio 'to entice' as likely, because the phonetics do not fit. Also, the meaning 'loop, noose' does not logically derive from 'to tear'. No other etymology. Bibl.: WH I: 745, … — [de Vaan, s.v. laqueus, p. 341]

2. lăquĕus — Lewis & Short

lăquĕus, i, m.cf. Gr. e(/lkw, draw, o(lko/s; Lat. lacio; perh. Germ. locken,

I a noose, snare (class.; cf. tendicula).

I Lit., Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 41: saxa laqueis vinciebat, Sall. J. 94: laqueis falces avertebant, Caes. B. G. 7, 22: collum in laqueum inserere, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37: inicere laqueum, to throw over any one, Liv. 1, 26: inicere cervicibus laqueum, Suet. Vit. 17: laqueo gulam alicui frangere, to throttle, strangle, Sall. C. 55, 4: ad laqueum compellere aliquem, to the halter, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 12: alicui mandare laqueum, to bid go and be hanged, Juv. 10, 53: neque carcer neque laqueus, a halter, gallows, Tac. A. 3, 50; 5, 9: faucesque jam exanimis laqueo vexatae, id. ib. 6, 40.—Of a snare, trap or lasso used by hunters: laqueis captare feras, Verg. G. 1, 139: metuit foveam lupus accipiterque Suspectos laqueos, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 51: laqueos et muscipula effugere, Phaedr. 4, 2, 8; cf.: impliciti laqueis nudus uterque jacent, Ov. A. A. 2, 580: dare in laqueum vestigia, to step into a snare, Juv. 13, 244.—

II Trop., a snare, gin, trap.

A In gen.: judicii laqueos declinans, Cic. Mil. 15, 40; cf.: interrogationum laqueis aliquem irretire, id. de Or. 1, 10, 43: laquei Stoicorum, subtleties, id. Tusc. 5, 27, 76: Chrysippi laquei, id. Fat. 4, 7: legum et condicionum, id. Clu. 55, 150: verbi laqueo capere, id. Caecin. 29, 83.—Without a gen.: in hos inexplicabiles laqueos inciderunt, Quint. 5, 10, 101: (testes) inducuntur in laqueos, id. 5, 7, 11: sciens in hoc se laqueos induxit, Lact. 6, 12, 13.—

B Fetters, chains, hinderances: tibi fortuna laqueum impegit, quem nec solvere posses nec erumpere, Sen. Tranq. 10, 1: nunquamne hos artissimos laqueos abrumpam, Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 3.

In the wild

laqueus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.25
laqueo Historia Augusta, Gordiani Tres 16
laqueos Cicero, De Fato 7
laqueo Historia Augusta, Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 15
LAQUEO Ausonius, Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 14.1
laqueum Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.30

6 of 197 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. laqueus (scan p. 341; entry #873).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. laqueus (scan p. 365; entry #5749).

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