lacio
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), with no known cognates in any other Indo-European languages.
Unused outside of glosses, reconstructed by grammarian Festus Grammaticus to explain its derivatives, see laqueus, lacessō and frequentative lactō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈla.ki.oː/, [ˈɫ̪äkioː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈla.t͡ʃi.o/, [ˈläːt͡ʃio]
Verb
laciō (present infinitive lacere, perfect active licuī, supine lactum); third conjugation iō-variant (very rare)
- to entice, ensnare
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- 8th C. CE, Glossae codicis Sangallensis, leaf 75 verso in Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum (volume IV), Georg Goetz (editor), Bibliotheca Teubneriana, page 253, line 41:
- Lacit captat suādet
- Lacit: to entice, to deceive
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “lacio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lacio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish llacio, from Latin flaccidus. Doublet of flácido.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈlaθjo/ [ˈla.θjo]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈlasjo/ [ˈla.sjo]
- Rhymes: -aθjo
- Rhymes: -asjo
- Syllabification: la‧cio
Adjective
lacio (feminine lacia, masculine plural lacios, feminine plural lacias)
- limp, flaccid, flabby
- 2011, Carolina Gonzalez Vergara, Porque Se Destruyo la Tierra?:
- Gabriela sentía sus piernas como de género lacias y débiles
- Gabriela felt her legs all limp and weak
- limp (lacking stiffness)
- 2012, Juan Francisco Ferré, Karnaval:
- bajándole la cremallera del pantalón y extrayendo un pene lacio, grande pero flácido
- pulling down his flies and taking out a limp penis, big but flaccid
- languid
- 1911, Miguel de Unamuno, “Civilitas”, in Rosario de sonetos líricos:
- La envidia de morder nunca se sacia
pues no come; por eso es que no engorda,
y á la pobre alma á la que sola aborda
de puro soledad la pone lacia.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- straight (of hair)
- 1883, Emilia Pardo Bazán, La Tribuna:
- se incorporó Amparo, apartando de la frente los negros cabellos lacios con el sudor que los empapaba
- Amparo got to his feet, wiping his straight black locks from his forehead with the sweat dripping off them.
- worthless
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lacio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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