laqueus

laqueus (plural laquei)

1. (historical) The lasso used by a laquearius.

From Proto-Italic *lakʷ- (“to ensnare”),^[1] with no certain cognates in any other Indo-European languages; possibly Proto-Indo-European *leh₁k- (“string, twig, tendril”). Alternative theories link the word to Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (“to bend; to twine”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.kʷe.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.kʷe.us]

laqueus m (genitive laqueī); second declension

1. noose
2. snare, gin, trap
3. (figuratively) chains, catena

   Synonyms: restis, fūniculus, līnum, vinculum, nervus

Second-declension noun.

• ēlaqueō (Late Latin)
• laqueō

• “laqueus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laqueus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “laqueus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "laqueus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “laqueus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “laqueus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin