flaccus

== Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain; possibly an imitative adjective with internal gemination (similar to crassus, grossus, gibber), or from a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Polish błagi and Lithuanian blogas. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɫak.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈflak.kus] === Adjective === flaccus (feminine flacca, neuter flaccum); first/second-declension adjective flabby, flaccid, hanging down flap-eared, having wide or large flat ears Synonym: plautus ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === 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