The corpus record — Latin

malaxo

malaxo · v. a

to soften, mollify

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Where it lives

Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. mălaxo — Lewis & Short

mălaxo, āvi, 1, v. a., = mala/ssw,

I to soften, mollify: malas, Laber. ap. Gell. 16, 7, 7: ventrem, Plin. Val. 1, 8: articulos, Sen. Ep. 66, 49; but v. malacisso.

2. malaxö — Walde–Hofmann

malaxö, -ärt, -ätum, -äre „mache weich, geschmeidig“ (seit Laber. [Goldberger Gl. 20, 109; com- seit Varro] malazatiö ,Erweichung* seit Diosc): aus gr. paÀdocu, Aor. uoÀdtoai (wie campsó, charaxó: aus xduyaı, xapdkaı [s. dd.] oder rum. pedepsi „züchtigen, strafen* aus mgr. éraíbcugca, gespr. epédepsa, Brüch RLR. 2, 96). 16 malina — malluviae. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. malaxö, p. 921]

In the wild

malaxavi Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 16.7.7
malaxandos Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.66.53

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. malaxö (scan pp. 921-922; entry #1663).

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