lassus
English
Noun
lassus
- plural of lassu
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lassos, from Proto-Indo-European *l̥h₁dtós, from *leh₁d- (“to be tired”). Cognate with Albanian lodh[1], Old English læt (“late, slow, sluggish, tardy”). More at late.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈɫ̪äs̠ːʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈläsːus]
Adjective
lassus (feminine lassa, neuter lassum, comparative lassior, superlative lassissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- weary, faint, tired
- exhausted, used up
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | lassus | lassa | lassum | lassī | lassae | lassa | |
Genitive | lassī | lassae | lassī | lassōrum | lassārum | lassōrum | |
Dative | lassō | lassō | lassīs | ||||
Accusative | lassum | lassam | lassum | lassōs | lassās | lassa | |
Ablative | lassō | lassā | lassō | lassīs | |||
Vocative | lasse | lassa | lassum | lassī | lassae | lassa |
Derived terms
- lassescō
- lassitūdō
- lassulus
- lassō
Descendants
- Catalan: llas, las
- French: las
- Galician: laso
- Italian: lasso
- Portuguese: lasso
- Spanish: laso
References
- “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lassus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “lassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Middle French
Etymology
Old French lassus, from la (“there”) + sus (“upon; on top of”).
Preposition
lassus
- up there
References
- lassus on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (lassus)