lasso

From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.

• (UK, Canada) enPR: lăs'o͝o, IPA^(key): /læsˈuː/
• (US) enPR: 'lăsō, 'lăso͝o, IPA^(key): /ˈlæs.oʊ/, /ˈlæs.u/

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• Rhymes: -æsəʊ

lasso (plural lassos or lassoes)

1. A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.
2. (computing) An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.

• → Czech: laso
• → Dutch: lasso
• → Finnish: lasso
• → German: Lasso
• → Hungarian: lasszó
• → Italian: lasso
• → Macedonian: ласо (laso)
• → Russian: лассо́ (lassó)
• → Slovene: laso

lasso (third-person singular simple present lassoes, present participle lassoing, simple past and past participle lassoed)

1. (transitive) To catch with a lasso.

• lassoer
• lassoist

• lariat
• noose

• soals

Borrowed from English lasso, from Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.soː/

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• Hyphenation: las‧so

lasso m (plural lasso's, diminutive lassootje n)

1. lasso

• lassoën

English lasso

lasso

1. lasso

• lassota

• suopunki

• IPA^(key): /ˈlas.so/, [ˈl̺äs̪s̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -asso
• Hyphenation: làs‧so

From Latin lassus (“weary”, “tired”).

lasso (feminine singular lassa, masculine plural lassi, feminine plural lasse) (obsolete, literary)

1. tired, weary, fatigued, weak
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto I, p. 8, vv. 28-30:

     Poi ch'ei posato un poco il corpo lasso, ¶ ripresi via per la piaggia diserta, ¶ sì che 'l piè fermo sempre era 'l più basso.

     After my weary body I had rested, ¶ the way resumed I on the desert slope, ¶ so that the firm foot ever was the lower.

2. miserable, unhappy, bleak

• (1): affaticato, provato, stanco, spossato
• (2): infelice, misero, tapino

• (1): energico, gagliardo, riposato
• (2): beato, contento, felice

From Latin laxus (“yielding”, “loose”).

lasso (feminine singular lassa, masculine plural lassi, feminine plural lasse) (dated, literary)

1. lax, loose
2. (figuratively) lax, lenient, permissive

• (1): lasco, lento
• (2): lassista, permissivo

• (1): stretto
• (2): intransigente, inflessibile, rigido, rigoroso

• lassativo
• lassismo
• lasciare

From Latin lāpsus, perfect participle of lābor (“I slip, flow”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *leb- (“to hang loosely”).

lasso m (plural lassi)

1. (only in the locution lasso di tempo) flow, passage, period (of time)

   Questa procedura richiede un certo lasso di tempo.

   This procedure takes a period of time.

• lasso di tempo

Borrowed from English lasso, from Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus.

lasso m (plural lassi)

1. lariat, lasso

• laccio, lazo

From lassare, older variant of lasciare (“to leave”, “to allow”).

lasso m (plural lassi)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of lassa

• salso

From lassus (“faint, weary”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlas.soː/, [ˈɫas.soː]

lassō (present infinitive lassāre, perfect active lassāvī, supine lassātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive) I tire, weary, fatigue; I render faint.

• lassescō
• lassitūdō
• lassulus
• lassus

• lasso in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lasso in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lasso in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lasso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Old Portuguese lasso, from Latin lassus (“weary; exhausted”), from Proto-Indo-European *led- (“slow; weary”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.su/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈla.so/
• Homophone: laço
• Hyphenation: las‧so

lasso m (feminine singular lassa, masculine plural lassos, feminine plural lassas, comparable)

1. weary; very tired; exhausted
2. (of a person) degenerate; dissolute (unrestrained by morality)
3. lax; loose (not tight)
4. worn out (damaged and useless due to hard or continued use)

• (very tired): cansadíssimo, exausto, fatigado
• (degenerate): degenerado, devasso, imoral, indecente
• (lax): frouxo, lasseiro, laxo, relaxado, solto
• (worn out): gasto, laxo

• (very tired): descansado
• (degenerate): casto, decente, decoroso
• (lax): apertado, retesado