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lassus

lassus

tired, weary

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 55 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lassus — de Vaan

lassus 'tired, weary' [adj. ο/α] (Ρ1.+) Derivatives: lassitudo 'tiredness' (P1.+); delassare 'to tire out' (PL+). Pit. *lasso-. PIE *Ihid-to- 'tired'. IE cognates: Gr. ληδεΐν 'to g e ^ e tired' (Hsch.), Alb. lodhem 'to be tired* (< *led-), Go. letan 'to let' < *leh,d-, lats 'slow' < ^Ihjd-o-. The PIE root is formed with a ^-enlargement to *Ih r 'to let\ The reflex *lad-to- can be explained from *///C- > *laC- or … — [de Vaan, s.v. lassus, p. 342]

2. lassus — Lewis & Short

lassus, a, um, adj.etym. dub.; acc. to Bopp, Gloss. 112, 6, for glassus from glasnus; kindred to Sanscr. glasnu, fessus, defessus, lassus; but more prob. collat. form of laxus; cf. langueo,

I faint, languid, weary, tired, exhausted (syn.: fessus, fatigatus, defatigatus; mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; not in Cic. or Cæs.).
I Lit.: lassus de via, Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 66: opere faciundo, id. As. 5, 2, 23: lassus jam sum durando miser, id. Truc. 2, 3, 6; cf.: Romani itinere atque opere castrorum et proelio fessi lassique erant, Sall. J. 53: recto itinere lassi, Quint. 2, 3, 9: assiduo gaudio, Plin. 37, 1, 1, § 3: ab equo indomito, Hor. S. 2, 2, 10: lasso mihi subvenire, Plin. Ep. 9, 36, 5: alieno aratro, Juv. 8, 246: marris ac vomere, id. 15, 167.—Prov.: a lasso rixam quaeri (because tired persons are easily vexed), Sen. Ira, 3, 9, 5.—
(b) With gen.: lassus maris et viarum Militiaeque, Hor. C. 2, 6, 7; cf.: ita me amor lassum animi ludificat, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 8.—
(g) With acc.: lassus pondus, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1599. —
(d) With inf.: nec fueris nomen lassa vocare meum, Prop. 2, 13, 28 (3, 5, 12); 2, 15 (3, 7), 46; 2, 33 (3, 31), 26.—
II Transf., of things: fructious assiduis lassa humus, exhausted, Ov. P. 1, 4, 14; cf.: lassa et effeta natura, Plin. Ep. 6, 21, 2: aurae spatio ipso, id. ib. 5, 6, 14: stomachus, Hor. S. 2, 8, 8: verba onerantia lassas aures, id. ib. 1, 10, 10: collum, drooping, Verg. A. 9, 436: lasso collo jumenta, Juv. 14, 146: undae, i. e. become calm again, Luc. 2, 618: mons, gently sloping, Stat. Th. 1, 330: si res lassa labat, Itidem amici collabascunt, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 16.—Comp., sup., and adv. seem not to occur.

3. lassus — Walde–Hofmann

lassus, -a, -um „matt, müde, abgespannt* (seit Plaut., rom. [vulgüres Wort, nicht klassisch, Neumann De cott. serm. zd Prop. propr. 41], ebenso /assó, -Are „mache müde, ermatte“ seit Tib. [de- seit Plt., vgl. döfatigö); vgl. noch lassitüdó seit Plt., Zassulus Catull, (z)lasséscó Plin., lassäbundus Rufin.): aus *lad-tos zu Wz. *ii[id-, *lod768 lateo. ,nachlassen* (Persson Beitr. 710) in got. lats ,trüge", ahd. Jag, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lassus, p. 799]

In the wild

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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. lassus (scan pp. 342-343; entry #880). Root candidates: *lasso-, *led-, *laC-.
  • Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lassus (scan p. 366; entry #5780).
  • Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lassus (scan pp. 799-801; entry #1504). Root candidates: *lod-, *ladno-, *led-.

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