laxe

See also: laxé

Galician
Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe dos Carballos ("flat stone of the oaks")
Bronze Age petroglyph on the Laxe das Rodas ("flat stone of the wheels")

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the medieval form lagea, previously documented in local Medieval Latin as lagena; from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; probably from Proto-Celtic *laginā (“blade”). Compare Welsh llain (“blade, sword, spear”) and Old Irish láige (“mattock, spade; broad spearhead”).[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlaʃe̝/

Noun

laxe f (plural laxes)

  1. flagstone; slab
    Synonyms: lastra, lousa
  2. flat river pebble
    Synonym: callao
  3. flat rocky outcrop
    Synonym: lastra
  4. semi-submerged rock; reef
    Synonym: con

Derived terms
  • Laiosa
  • Lage
  • Laña
  • Lañas
  • Laxas
  • Laxe
  • Laxedo
  • Laxes
  • laxedo
  • laxeira
  • laxento
  • Laxielas
  • Laxosa
  • Laxoso

Descendants
  • → Spanish: laja

References
  • “lagia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “lage-” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “laxe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “laxe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “laxe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “laja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  2. Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 61

German

Pronunciation
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Adjective

laxe

  1. inflection of lax:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Adverb

laxē (comparative laxius, superlative laxissimē)

  1. widely, spaciously
  2. loosely, freely
  3. (of time) long, amply

References
  • “laxe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “laxe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • laxe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

laxe

  1. inflection of laxar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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