lassar

Learned borrowing from Latin lassāre (“to tire”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ləˈsa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [laˈsaɾ]

lassar (first-person singular present lasso, first-person singular preterite lassí, past participle lassat)

1. (transitive) to tire; to fatigue

   Synonyms: cansar, fatigar

2. (intransitive, pronominal) to tire

• las

• “lassar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Derived from French laisser and Italian lassare, both from Latin laxō.

• IPA^(key): /laˈsar/

lassar

1. (auxiliary) to let
2. (transitive) to leave (both senses)

• lassar facer

• Alexander Gode (1951), Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL

From a substantivization of Proto-Celtic *laxsaros.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪a.səɾ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈl̪a.saɾ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈl̪a.səɾ]

lassar f

1. flame, fire

• lasardae (“burning, blazing”, adjective)

• lasaid

• Irish: lasair
• Scottish Gaelic: lasair

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lasar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From lasso (“lax”) +‎ -ar.

• Homophone: laçar
• Hyphenation: las‧sar

lassar (first-person singular present lasso, first-person singular preterite lassei, past participle lassado)

1. to loosen (to make something less tight)

   Synonyms: afrouxar, desamarrar, desapertar

   Antonyms: amarrar, apertar

• lasseiro
• lassidão
• lassidez
• lassitude
• lasso

• “lassar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

lassar

1. present indicative of lassa