The corpus record — Latin

laxitas

laxitas · f

width, roominess, spaciousness, extent

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Where it lives

C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3 · 0.25/10k
Naturalis Historia 9 · 0.23/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

laxĭtas — Lewis & Short

laxĭtas, ātis, f.laxus,

I width, roominess, spaciousness, extent.

I Lit. (rare but class.), of a house, Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139: loci, Sall. ap. Non. 132, 23: laxitas appellatur Propontis, angustiae Thracius Bosporus, the wide part, Plin. 4, 12, 24, § 76: mundi, id. 14 prooem. § 5: spatiosa, id. 8, 43, 68, § 169: hae semitae opportunam laxitatem praebent, Col. 4, 18: aëris. i. e. a free current of air, Pall. 1, 5.—*

II Trop., laxity, languor, Arn. 6, 197.

In the wild

laxitate Suetonius, C. Caligula 37.2
laxitate Suetonius, Divus Augustus 72.1
laxitate Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.4.4
laxitas Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.43
laxitate Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.12.p3
laxitas Suetonius, Nero 31.1

6 of 23 attestations shown.

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