relaxo

relaxo

1. first-person singular present indicative of relaxar

From re- (“back; again”) +‎ laxō (“extend; loosen; relieve; relax”), from laxus (“loose, open”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛˈɫak.soː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [reˈlak.so]

relaxō (present infinitive relaxāre, perfect active relaxāvī, supine relaxātum); first conjugation

1. to stretch out or widen again; unloose, loosen, open; slacken; abate
2. (figuratively) to slacken, ease, alleviate, mitigate; cheer up, enliven, relax
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Letters to Friends:

     propter molestissimās occupātiōnēs meās, quibus sī mē relaxārō (nam ut plānē exsolvam nōn postulō), tē ipsum, quī multōs annōs nihil aliud commentāris, docēbō profectō quid sit hūmāniter vīvere.

     Due to my most troublesome duties which if I slacken (for to be loose of them entirely is more than I can ask), then, no question about it, I shall teach you the art of civilized living, to which you have been giving your undivided attention for years!

• relaxātiō
• relaxātor

• collaxō
• dīlaxō
• laxō
• perlaxō

• “relaxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “relaxo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “relaxo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to recruit oneself, seek relaxation: animum relaxare, reficere, recreare or simply se reficere, se recreare, refici, recreari (ex aliqua re)
    
  • the pain grows less: dolores remittunt, relaxant
    

• Hyphenation: re‧la‧xo

relaxo

1. first-person singular present indicative of relaxar