salax
Latin
Etymology
From saliō (“I leap, jump”) + -āx (“inclined to”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.laːks/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪äːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.laks/, [ˈsäːläks]
Adjective
salāx (genitive salācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- (especially of male animals) prone to leaping
- salacious, lustful, lecherous, lascivious
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.771-772:
- ‘sitque salāx ariēs, conceptaque sēmina coniūnx
reddat, et in stabulō multa sit agna meō.’- ‘‘And may the ram be lustful, and may his mate return the seeds having been received,
and in my stable may there be many a lamb.’’
(A shepherd’s prayer to Pales.)
- ‘‘And may the ram be lustful, and may his mate return the seeds having been received,
- ‘sitque salāx ariēs, conceptaque sēmina coniūnx
- lust-provoking, provocative
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | salāx | salācēs | salācia | ||
| Genitive | salācis | salācium | |||
| Dative | salācī | salācibus | |||
| Accusative | salācem | salāx | salācēs | salācia | |
| Ablative | salācī | salācibus | |||
| Vocative | salāx | salācēs | salācia | ||
Derived terms
- salācitās
- saliō
Descendants
- →⇒ English: salacious
- → French: salace
- → Italian: salace
- → Portuguese: salaz
- → Spanish: salaz
References
- “salax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “salax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- salax 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)
- salax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette