laxus — Logoi (Latin)

Where it lives

Mosella 2 · 6.15/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
De Vita Beata 3 · 4.13/10k
Cathemerina 2 · 2.72/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
Georgicon 3 · 2.12/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k

Densest 12 of 59 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. laxus — de Vaan

laxus 'spacious, wide, loose' [adj. o/a] (Cato+) Derivatives: laxare 'to make larger; undo, relax' (Lucr+), collaxare 'to make loose' (Lucr.+), dilaxare 'to stretch apart' (Lucil.), relaxare 'to loosen, relax' (Varro+). ML *(s)lakso-. PIE *slg-so- 'weak, faint'. IE cognates: see hngueo. Schrijver's rule *RDC > *RaDC can explain laxus < *lagso- < *stgrso-. Bibl.: WH I: 758, EM 348, IEW 959f., Schrijver 136f, 165, LIV … — [de Vaan, s.v. laxus, p. 345]

2. laxus — Lewis & Short

laxus, a, um, adj.cf. languidus, languor, lactes,

I wide, loose, open; spacious, roomy; opp. adstrictus (not freq. till after the Aug. per.).

I Lit.: laxius agmen, Sall. ap. Non. 235, 16: casses, Verg. G. 4, 247: circli, id. ib. 3, 166: sinus, Tib. 1, 6, 18: toga, id. 1, 6, 40; 2, 3, 78; cf.: in pede calceus haeret, wide, loose, Hor. S. 1, 3, 32: nuces Ferre sinu laxo, id. ib. 2, 3, 171: qua satis laxo spatio equi permitti possent, Liv. 10, 5; so, spatium, wide, roomy, Sen. Ep. 88 med.; cf.: laxior domus, Vell. 2, 81: janua, open, Ov. Am. 1, 8, 77: compages, Verg. A. 1, 122: mulier, Mart. 11, 21: habenae, Cic. Lael. 13 (v. under II.); Verg. A. 1, 63: frena, Ov. Am. 3, 4, 16; cf.: qui jam contento, jam laxo fune laborat, Hor. S. 2, 7, 20: arcus, slackened, unbent, unstrung, Verg. A. 11, 874: laxo meditantur arcu cedere campis, Hor. C. 3, 8, 23: opes, large, great, Mart. 2, 30, 4.—

II Trop.: laxissimas habenas habere amicitiae, very wide, loose, Cic. Lael. 13, 45: si bellum cum eo hoste haberemus, in quo neglegentiae laxior locus esset, greater latitude or scope, Liv. 24, 8; cf.: laxius imperium, less strict, more indulgent, Sall. J. 64: annona, i. e. reduced, cheap, Liv. 2, 52: caput, relaxed, disordered from drinking, Pers. 3, 58: vox, pronounced broad, Gell. 13, 20, 12: laxioribus verbis dicere aliquid, prolix, diffuse, id. 16, 1, 3.—Of time: diem statuo satis laxam, sufficiently distant, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 16: tempus sibi et quidem laxius postulavit, Plin. Ep. 4, 9 med.—Hence, adv.: laxē, widely, spaciously, loosely.

1 Lit.: vis sideris laxe grassantis, Plin. 2, 97, 99, § 217: distans, id. 13, 4, 7, § 33: aurum laxius dilatatur, id. 33, 3, 19, § 61: Mercurii stella laxissime vagatur, id. 2, 16, 13, § 66: medio suspendit vincula ponto, Et laxe fluitare sinit, loosely, freely, Luc. 4, 450: manus vincire, loosely, Liv. 9, 10, 7.—

2 Trop.: laxius proferre diem, to put farther off, Cic. Att. 13, 14, 1; cf.: volo laxius (sc. rem curari), id. ib. 15, 20, 4: de munere pastorum alii angustius, alii laxius constituere solent, a greater number, more, Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 10: in hostico laxius rapto suetis vivere artiores in pace res erant, more unrestrictedly, more freely, Liv. 28, 24, 6: Romanos remoto metu laxius licentiusque futuros, be more relaxed in discipline, more negligent, disorderly, Sall. J. 85.

In the wild

laxior Celsus, De Medicina 8.9.p1
laxiorem Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.39.17.2
laxis Persius, Saturae 3.102
laxius Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.27.4
laxius Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 3.7.9
laxi Statius, Thebais 7.141

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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. laxus (scan pp. 345-346; entry #885). Root candidates: *lagso-, *stgrso-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. laxus (scan p. 372; entry #5870).

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