English → Latin
“flaccid” in Latin
flaccidusFlaccid, flabby, pendulous.; Languid, feeble, weak.marciduswithered, dropping, rotten; apathetic, languid; exhausted, feeble, weakresolvōto release, loosen, unloose, unbind, disentangle, relax, dissolve; to enfeeble; to cancel, dispelmarcēscōto begin to wither, pine away; to grow feeble; to pine or languishflacceōto be flabby or flaccid; to be faint, languid or weak; flag, droopLactantiusA masculine cognomen — famously held bymarceōto wither, droop, shrink, shrivel; to be faint, weak, lazy or languid
The English word flaccid itself goes back to Latin flaccus, through flaccidus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
flaccid
flaccidus (withered, slack): marcidus (without consistency and solidity; fading away): resolutus (unstrung, etc.; e.g., corpora juvenum, Col.). To become flaccid, flaccessere: marcescere. To be flaccid, flaccere (PROP., Lactantius; but IMPROP., Cic.): marcere. All these expressions are seldom met with in prose writers that have been handed down to us.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for flaccid?
- The usual Latin words for “flaccid” are flaccidus, marcidus, resolvō; also marcēscō, flacceō, Lactantius. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.