laqueus

See also: Laqueus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *lakʷ- (“to ensnare”), with no certain cognates in any other Indo-European languages; possibly Proto-Indo-European *leh₁k- (“string, twig, tendril”). Alternative theories link the word to Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (“to bend; to twine”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kʷe.us/, [ˈɫ̪äkʷeʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kwe.us/, [ˈläːkweus]

Noun

laqueus m (genitive laqueī); second declension

1. noose
2. snare, gin, trap
3. (figuratively) chains, catena

   Synonyms: restis, fūniculus, līnum, vinculum, nervus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	laqueus	laqueī
genitive	laqueī	laqueōrum
dative	laqueō	laqueīs
accusative	laqueum	laqueōs
ablative	laqueō	laqueīs
vocative	laquee	laqueī

Derived terms

• ēlaqueō (Late Latin)
• laqueō

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *laceum, *laceus
  • Basque: lakio
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: laț
    • Aromanian: alats, alatsu
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Piedmontese: lass
  • Italian: laccio
    • → Alemannic German: Lätsch
  • Old French: laz
    • French: lacs
    • → English: lace
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: llazu
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: llaç
    • Occitan: laç
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: laço
    • Galician: lazo
    • Portuguese: laço
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: lazo
      • → English: lasso, lassu (archaic), lazo (archaic)
        • → Czech: laso
        • → Dutch: lasso
        • → Finnish: lasso
        • → German: Lasso
        • → Hungarian: lasszó
        • → Italian: lasso
        • → Macedonian: ласо (laso)
        • → Russian: лассо́ (lassó)
        • → Slovene: laso
      • → Italian: lazo
      • → Ladino: lago
      • → Tagalog: laso
      • → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: löso
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: laç
  • Sardinian: latu, lantu, lassu, latzu
  • Sicilian: lazzu

References

• “laqueus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laqueus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “laqueus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• laqueus 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)
• laqueus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “laqueus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin