lassus

lassus

1. plural of lassu

From Proto-Indo-European *lh₁d-to-s, verbal adjective from the root *leh₁d- (“to be tired”) +‎ *-tós.^[1][2] Compare Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈɫ̪äs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈläsːus]

lassus (feminine lassa, neuter lassum, comparative lassior, superlative lassissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. weary, faint, tired
2. exhausted, used up

First/second-declension adjective.

• lēnis (“soft”)
• lētum (“death, ruin”)

• Catalan: llas, las
• French: las
• Galician: laso
• Italian: lasso
• Portuguese: lasso
• Spanish: laso

• “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lassus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Old French lassus, from la (“there”) +‎ sus (“upon; on top of”).

lassus

1. up there

• lassus on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (lassus)