laxam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →laxus, laxa -um, laxior -or -us, laxissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wide, spacious, ample, roomy; loose, not close packed; slack, not tight; lax;; unstrung; relaxed, at ease; unrestricted; breached/wide open; distant (time);
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...undecies, sudor inhaereret madida ne ueste retentus et laxam tenuis laederet aura cutem. Quare ego non sudo..."- L
ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...cupiditas, alios spectacula; quosdam traxit amicitia, quosdam industria laxam ostendendae uirtuti nancta materiam; quidam uenalem formam attulerunt, quidam..." - L
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...superiora progressus est et se altius extulit laxam catenam trahit, nondum liber, iam tamen pro libero. XVII..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...habeant, quot lecticarios habentem, quam oneratas aures, quam laxam sellam? aeque inprudens animal est et, nisi scientia accessit..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...cavum macie caput et conditos penitus oculos et laxam cutem, nudos labris trementibus dentes, rigentem vultum et destitutas..."