English → Latin
“relax” in Latin
laxōto extend, expand; to open, make wide; to undo, releaserelaxōto stretch out or widen again; unloose, loosen, open; slacken; abate; to slacken, ease, alleviate, mitigate; cheer up, eremittōto send back, to remit, to throw back, restore; to forgive, free one from any thing; to give up, reject, yield, resign, molliōto soften, make soft, make calm, moderate, mitigate, mollify; to make unmanly or effeminateēmolliōto soften; to enervate; to (take) shelter behindfrangōto break, shatter; to break, shatter (a promise, a treaty, someone's ideas (dreams, projects), someone's spirit); to brelanguēscōto become faint, feeble, weak, languid or sick; to languish; to wiltēlanguēscōto grow faint or feeble; to flag; to slacken or relaxrelanguēscōto become faint or languidcorpusbody, person (person when used to mean "human body", e.g., "on one's person"); substance, material (physical, perceptibl
The English word relax itself goes back to Latin laxus, through relaxāre.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
relax
Transitively, laxare: relaxare: remittere (PROP. and figuratively): mollire, emollire (to soften): frangere: languorem afferre alicui (to render [mentally] dull): to relax the body and mind, i. e., to weaken, frangere vires animi, corporis: to relax the mind, debilitare animum: to relax the mind and body, mentis et corporis nervos frangere: to be relaxed by anything, aliquid languorem affert mihi: to relax the mind, i. e., to refresh, animum remittere or relaxare: to relax military discipline, disciplinam militarem resolvere.
Intransitively, laxari, relaxari, remitti: languescere, elanguescere, relanguescere (to become dull, feeble, etc.): flaccessere (to become loose, of sails; then figuratively, of speech). Vid: also, ABATE.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for relax?
- The usual Latin words for “relax” are laxō, relaxō, remittō; also molliō, ēmolliō, frangō. 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.