Wiktionary

laxe

See also: laxé

Galician edit

 
Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe dos Carballos ("flat stone of the oaks")
 
Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe das Rodas ("flat stone of the wheels")

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From the medieval form lagea, previously documented in local Medieval Latin as lagena; from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; probably from Proto-Celtic *laginā (“blade”). Compare Welsh llain (“blade, sword, spear”) and Old Irish láige (“mattock, spade; broad spearhead”).[1][2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

laxe f (plural laxes)

  1. flagstone; slab
    Synonyms: lastra, lousa
  2. flat river pebble
    Synonym: callao
  3. flat rocky outcrop
    Synonym: lastra
  4. semi-submerged rock; reef
    Synonym: con

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • → Spanish: laja

References edit

  • “lagia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “lage-” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “laxe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “laxe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “laxe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “laja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  2. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 61

German edit

Pronunciation edit

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Adjective edit

laxe

  1. inflection of lax:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin edit

Adverb edit

laxē (comparative laxius, superlative laxissimē)

  1. widely, spaciously
  2. loosely, freely
  3. (of time) long, amply

Related terms edit

References edit

  • “laxe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “laxe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • laxe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish edit

Verb edit

laxe

  1. inflection of laxar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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