trahax

From trahō (“to drag”) +‎ -āx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtra.(ɦ)aːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtraː.aks]

trahāx (genitive trahācis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (Plautine, hapax legomenon) that draws everything to himself, greedy, covetous
   • c. 197 BCE, Plautus, Persa III. iii. 405-416:

     [Toxilus] Curate isti intus, iam ego domum me recipiam. [Dordalus]. Oh,
     Toxile, quid agitur? [Toxilus] Oh, lutum lenonium,
     commixtum caeno sterculinum publicum,
     impure, inhoneste, iniure, inlex, labes popli,
     pecuniae accipiter avide atque invide,
     procax, rapax, trahax— trecentis versibus
     tuas impuritias traloqui nemo potest—
     accipin argentum? accipe sis argentum, impudens,
     tene sis argentum, etiam tu argentum tenes?
     possum te facere ut argentum accipias, lutum?
     non mihi censebas copiam argenti fore,
     qui nisi iurato mihi nil ausu's credere?

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Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• “trahax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trahax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.