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) 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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | flaccus | flacca | flaccum | flaccī | flaccae | flacca | |
| Genitive | flaccī | flaccae | flaccī | flaccōrum | flaccārum | flaccōrum | |
| Dative | flaccō | 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