flaccus

See also: Flaccus

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly imitative[1], or from a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Polish błagi and Lithuanian blogas[2].

Pronunciation

Adjective

flaccus (feminine flacca, neuter flaccum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. flabby, flaccid, hanging down
  2. flap-eared

Declension

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

Descendants
  • Catalan: flac
  • French: flache, flasque
  • Italian: fiacco
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: fraco
  • Sicilian: ciaccu, fraccu
  • Spanish: flaco

References
  • “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
  1. per OED
  2. 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
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