lascivus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a Proto-Italic *lasko-, itself from Proto-Indo-European *lh₂s-ko- (“desirous”), from *leh₂s- (“to be eager”) (though others, including Beekes and Kroonen, have expressed doubt about the existence of the root and its assigned descendants), + -īvus (“adjectival suffix”). Cognate with Old Irish lainn (“eager”), Ancient Greek λῐλαίομαι (lilaíomai, “to desire strongly”), Lithuanian lokšnùs (“sensitive”), Proto-Slavic *lasъ (“avaricious”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /lasˈkiː.u̯us/, [ɫ̪äs̠ˈkiːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laʃˈʃi.vus/, [läʃˈʃiːvus]
Adjective
[edit]lascīvus (feminine lascīva, neuter lascīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- wanton, playful, frisky
- lustful, licentious, lascivious, lewd
- (of style) luxuriant
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | lascīvus | lascīva | lascīvum | lascīvī | lascīvae | lascīva | |
| genitive | lascīvī | lascīvae | lascīvī | lascīvōrum | lascīvārum | lascīvōrum | |
| dative | lascīvō | lascīvae | lascīvō | lascīvīs | |||
| accusative | lascīvum | lascīvam | lascīvum | lascīvōs | lascīvās | lascīva | |
| ablative | lascīvō | lascīvā | lascīvō | lascīvīs | |||
| vocative | lascīve | lascīva | lascīvum | lascīvī | lascīvae | lascīva | |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lascīvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328
Further reading
[edit]- “lascivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lascivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lascivus 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)
- lascivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.