lax.
A salmon.
Meaning & usage
A salmon.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox.
Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.
Loose; not tight or taut.
The rope fell lax.
Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
Describing an associative monoidal functor.
Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheic.
(of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin laxus (“wide, roomy, loose”).
lacrosse.
Where this word comes from
By replacement of the syllable crosse with the cross-shaped letter x.
Clipping of laxative.
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