laxo
See also: laxó
Catalan
Verb
laxo
- first-person singular present indicative of laxar
Latin
Etymology
From laxus (“loose, open”) + -ō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫak.soː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlak.so]
Verb
laxō (present infinitive laxāre, perfect active laxāvī, supine laxātum); first conjugation
- to extend, expand
- to open, make wide
- to undo, release
- (figuratively) to lighten, relieve, free
- to relax, moderate, weaken
- to lessen, abate
Conjugation
Conjugation of laxō (first conjugation)
Derived terms
- laxāmentum
- laxātiō
- laxātīvus
- relaxō
Related terms
Descendants
- Insular Romance:
- Balkano-Romance:
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *laxicāre, *lassicāre
- Borrowings:
References
- “laxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “laxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “laxo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the price of corn is going down: annona laxatur, levatur, vilior fit
- (ambiguous) to fight in open order: laxatis (opp. confertis) ordinibus pugnare
- the price of corn is going down: annona laxatur, levatur, vilior fit
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaɡso/ [ˈlaɣ̞.so]
- Rhymes: -aɡso
- Syllabification: la‧xo
Etymology 1
Adjective
laxo (feminine laxa, masculine plural laxos, feminine plural laxas)
- (formal) lax
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
laxo
- first-person singular present indicative of laxar
Further reading
- “laxo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025