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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."