laqueus
Meaning
- masculinenoose
- masculinesnare, gin, trap
- figurativelymasculinechains, catena
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
fūnis ad strangulandumfūnis in orbem nexusfūnis in nōdum nexusChoosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Laqueus · Funis · Restis
1. Laqueus (from ἑλίξαι) is the noose at the end of a rope; whereas funis and restis mean the rope itself; funis, a thicker rope, which is meant more for drawing and pulling, and on that account must have a proper length, like σχοῖνος; restis, a thinner rope, which serves more for fastening and hanging up, and therefore may be short, like σπάρτη. The trace by which the equus funalis is attached; the rope on which the funambulus balances himself; the tow which draws the boat to the ship, are never rendered in prose by restis: whereas the rope with which the self-murderer hangs himself, or the slave is whipped, or the garment girded, is seldom rendered by funis, unless the poet gives the preference to the last word as a more elevated term. (v. 36.) 2. Rudentes are the sail ropes; retinacula, and oræ, the cables or anchor-ropes; retinacula, as a more general and popular term; oræ, oras, solvere, as more technical expressions in nautical language.
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | laqueus | laqueī |
| genitive | laqueī | laqueōrum |
| dative | laqueō | laqueīs |
| accusative | laqueum | laqueōs |
| ablative | laqueō | laqueīs |
| vocative | laquee | laqueī |
saxa laqueis vinciebat, Sall. J. 94: laqueis falces avertebant, Caes. B. G. 7, 22: collum in laqueum inserere, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 17, § 37: inicere laqueum, to throw over any one, Liv. 1, 26: inicere cervicibus laqueum, Suet. Vit. 17: laqueo gulam alicui frangere, to throttle, strangle, Sall. C. 55, 4: ad laqueum compellere aliquem, to the halter, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 12: alicui mandare laqueum, to bid go and be hanged, Juv. 10, 53: neque carcer neque laqueus, a halter, gallows, Tac. A. 3, 50; 5, 9: faucesque jam exanimis laqueo vexatae, id. ib. 6, 40.—Of a snare, trap or lasso used by hunters: laqueis captare feras, Verg. G. 1, 139: metuit foveam lupus accipiterque Suspectos laqueos, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 51: laqueos et muscipula effugere, Phaedr. 4, 2, 8; cf.: impliciti laqueis nudus uterque jacent, Ov. A. A. 2, 580: dare in laqueum vestigia, to step into a snare, Juv. 13, 244.—judicii laqueos declinans, Cic. Mil. 15, 40; cf.: interrogationum laqueis aliquem irretire, id. de Or. 1, 10, 43: laquei Stoicorum, subtleties, id. Tusc. 5, 27, 76: Chrysippi laquei, id. Fat. 4, 7: legum et condicionum, id. Clu. 55, 150: verbi laqueo capere, id. Caecin. 29, 83.—Without a gen.: in hos inexplicabiles laqueos inciderunt, Quint. 5, 10, 101: (testes) inducuntur in laqueos, id. 5, 7, 11: sciens in hoc se laqueos induxit, Lact. 6, 12, 13.—tibi fortuna laqueum impegit, quem nec solvere posses nec erumpere, Sen. Tranq. 10, 1: nunquamne hos artissimos laqueos abrumpam, Plin. Ep. 2, 8, 3.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
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”).
- Sardinianlatu
- Sardinianlantu
- Sardinianlassu
- Sardinianlatzu
- Catalanllaç
- Frenchlacsfrom Old French laz
- Occitanlaçfrom Old Occitan latz
- Middle Englishlasfrom Old French laz
- Middle Englishlacefrom Old French laz
- Portugueselaçofrom Old Galician-Portuguese laço
- Spanishlazo
- Asturianllazu
- Galicianlazofrom Old Galician-Portuguese laço
- Romanianlaț
- Aromanianalats
- Aromanianalatsu
- Italianlaccio
- Corsicanlacciu
- Alemannic GermanLätschfrom Italian laccio
- Neapolitanlazzo
- Sicilianlazzu
- Venetanlàzzo
- Venetanlàzo
- Venetanlàso
- Friulianlaç
- Lombardlasc
- Piedmonteselass
- Basquelakio
- TranslingualLaqueus