flaccus

See also: Flaccus

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly an imitative adjective with internal gemination (similar to crassus, grossus, gibber),^[1][2] or from a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Polish błagi and Lithuanian blogas.^[3]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈflak.kus/, [ˈfɫ̪äkːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈflak.kus/, [ˈfläkːus]

Adjective

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

1. flabby, flaccid, hanging down
2. flap-eared, having wide or large flat ears

   Synonym: plautus

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

• flacceō
• flaccēscō
• flaccidus
• Flaccus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: flac
• French: flache, flasque
• Italian: fiacco
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: fraco
  • Galician: fraco, fraque
  • 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. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 141; 223-4
2. per OED
3. 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