lixa

lixa

1. inflection of lixar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Probably the feminine of an adjective *lixus (“fluid”), cognate to ēlixus, prōlixus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“fluid, wet”) and so cognate to liqueō.^[1]

• lix

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlik.sa/, [ˈlʲɪks̠ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlik.sa/, [ˈliksä]

lixa m (genitive lixae); first declension (attested only in glosses)

1. water
2. lye
   • Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina 62.11:^[2]

     Lixarum proprietas haec est, quod officium sustineant militibus aquae vehendae; lixam namque aquam veteres vocaverunt; unde elixum dicimus aqua coctum. Lix[a] etiam cinis dicitur vel umor cineri mixtus; nam etiamnunc id genus lexivum vocatur. Varro de Vita Populi Romani lib. I: 'proinde ut elixum panem ex farre et aqua frigida fingebant'.

     The particular quality of lixae is this, to bear the duty of carrying water for the soldiers, for the ancients called water "lixa"; whence we say "elixus", meaning cooked with water. Ash or liquid mixed with ash is also called "lix[a]"; for even now that type is called lexivus. Varro de Vita Populi Romani Book I: "therefore they made soaked/boiled bread from emmer and cold water"

Since manuscripts of Nonius read "lix etiam cinis...", some dictionaries treat lix (“lye”) as a distinct noun: however, Lindsay 1891, citing Onions, argues that "lix etiam" is merely a corruption of "lixaetiam", i.e. "lixa etiam".^[3]

First-declension noun.

• lixīvus, lixīvius
• lixula (maybe)

Unknown. Maybe related to linquō; otherwise potentially a substrate or foreign word.

lixa m (genitive lixae); first declension

1. (military) sutler, camp follower, attendant

First-declension noun.

• lixābundus

• “lixa” on page 1141 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “lixa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lixa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lixa 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)
• lixa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

lixa

1. west

• Hyphenation: li‧xa

Unknown. Probably related to Spanish lijar (“to sand”) or Italian lisciare (“to smooth”).

lixa f (plural lixas)

1. sandpaper (paper coated with abrasive material)
2. nail file (small file used to file fingernails and toenails)
3. any dogfish shark characterised by rough skin

• → Hunsrik: Lisch

lixa

1. inflection of lixar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative