elixus

Latin

Etymology

From ex- (“out”) +‎ *lixus (compare prōlixus); the unprefixed adjective probably descends from Proto-Italic *liksos, from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“moist, to wet”) and originally had a sense like "fluid, flowing". Cognate with lixa and liqueō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [eːˈlɪk.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈlik.sus]

Adjective

ēlixus (feminine ēlixa, neuter ēlixum); first/second-declension adjective

1. boiled (of meat etc.)
2. soaked, sodden

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ēlixus	ēlixa	ēlixum		ēlixī	ēlixae	ēlixa
genitive	ēlixī	ēlixae	ēlixī		ēlixōrum	ēlixārum	ēlixōrum
dative	ēlixō	ēlixae	ēlixō		ēlixīs
accusative	ēlixum	ēlixam	ēlixum		ēlixōs	ēlixās	ēlixa
ablative	ēlixō	ēlixā	ēlixō		ēlixīs
vocative	ēlixe	ēlixa	ēlixum		ēlixī	ēlixae	ēlixa

Derived terms

• ēlixō

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Italian: lesso
  • Venetan: leso, lese, les
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: lès

Further reading

• “elixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “elixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• elixus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “elixus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.