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発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /læks/
• 韻: -æks
• 異形同音異義語: lacs, lacks, lakhs (one pronunciation)

別の表記

• lacks (Killian)

語源 1

From 中期英語 lax, from 古期英語 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.

名詞

lax (plural laxes)

1. (now chiefly UK dialectal, Scotland) A salmon.

派生語

• laxfisher

関連する語

• gravlax
• lox

語源 2

Borrowed from Latin laxus (“wide, roomy, loose”).

形容詞

lax (comparative laxer, superlative laxest)

1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

   Synonyms: permissive, lenient, relaxed; see also Thesaurus:lenient

   Antonym: strict

   The rules are fairly lax, but you have to know which ones you can bend.

   • 1886, John Addington Symonds, Philip Sidney:

     Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions.

2. Loose; not tight or taut.

   Synonyms: loose, slack

   Antonyms: taut, tight

   The rope fell lax.

   • 1701, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, […], 3rd edition, London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, […], →OCLC, part II, page 355:

     The Fleſh of this ſort of [cartilaginous] Fiſh being lax and ſpungy, and nothing ſo firm, ſolid and weighty as that of the bony Fiſhes, and there being a good quantity of Air contained in the Cavity of their Abdomen, they cannot ſink in the Water without letting in ſome of it by theſe Holes (the Orifices whereof are opened and ſhut at pleaſure by the help of Muſcles provided for that purpoſe) into the hollow of their Bellies, whereby they preponderate the Water and deſcend; […]

   • 1979, “Genetical Studies on Dense and Lax Panicles In Rice”, in Japan. J. Breed., volume 29, number 2, page 151:

     Sreedharan and Mirsa (1973) reported that two lax panicle mutants, designated as nude panicle mutation, were obtained from the M₂ of two rice cultivars.

3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.

   Synonyms: blameworthy, lash, negligent, remiss, reprehensible

   • 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:

     The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.

   • 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 – 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Prior to this match, Albion had only scored three league goals all season, but Wes Brown's lax marking allowed Morrison to head in their fourth from a Chris Brunt free-kick and then, a minute later, the initial squandering of possession and Michael Turner's lack of pace let Long run through to slot in another.

4. (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
5. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
6. (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

   Synonym: slack

   Antonym: tense

派生語

関連する語

語源 3

By replacement of the syllable crosse with the cross-shaped letter x.

名詞

lax (uncountable)

1. (slang) lacrosse.
   • 2010, Kate Kingsley, Pretty on the Outside, page 79:

     “I'm not playing lax this term,” Mimah said.

派生語

• lax bro

語源 4

名詞

lax (plural laxes)

1. (informal) Clipping of laxative.

関連する語

• ex-lax fish

アナグラム

• Axl

語源

From 古期英語 leax, from Proto-West Germanic *lahs, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.

発音

• IPA: /laks/, /lɛks/

名詞

lax (plural lax or laxes)

1. salmon

派生した語

• English: lax
• Scots: lax

参照

• “lax, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 June 2018.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈɫaks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈlaks]

名詞

lax f (genitive lacis); third declension (hapax legomenon)

1. deception, fraud

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

同意語

• fraus

参照

• “lax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

アナグラム

• alx