flaccus
See also: Flaccus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possibly an imitative adjective with internal gemination (similar to crassus, grossus, gibber),[1][2] or from a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Polish błagi and Lithuanian blogas.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈflak.kus/, [ˈfɫ̪äkːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈflak.kus/, [ˈfläkːus]
Adjective
[edit]flaccus (feminine flacca, neuter flaccum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | flaccus | flacca | flaccum | flaccī | flaccae | flacca | |
| genitive | flaccī | flaccae | flaccī | flaccōrum | flaccārum | flaccōrum | |
| dative | flaccō | flaccae | flaccō | flaccīs | |||
| accusative | flaccum | flaccam | flaccum | flaccōs | flaccās | flacca | |
| ablative | flaccō | flaccā | flaccō | flaccīs | |||
| vocative | flacce | flacca | flaccum | flaccī | flaccae | flacca | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “flaccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flaccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flaccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “flaccus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 141; 223-4
- ^ per OED
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bh(e)lāg-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 124-125