lax

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /læks/

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• Rhymes: -æks
• Homophone: lacks

• lacks (Killian)

From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“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”). See also lox.

lax (plural laxes)

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

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

lax (comparative laxer, superlative laxest)

1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.

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

   • J. A. Symonds

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

2. Loose; not tight or taut.

   The rope fell lax.

   • Ray

     the flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy

3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
   • 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. (archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
5. (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.

• (lenient, not strict): permissive, lenient
• (loose, not tight): loose, slack
• (lacking care): blameworthy, lash, negligent, remiss, reprehensible

• (lenient, not strict): strict
• (loose, not tight): taut, tight

• laxity

lax (uncountable)

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

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

• Axl

lax

1. The edible wild purslane plant.

From Latin laxus

• IPA^(key): /laks/

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• Homophone: Lachs

lax (comparative laxer, superlative am laxesten)

1. lax
2. (morale or ethics) easy, loose

• lax in Duden online

Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.

• IPA^(key): [laxs], [laks]

lax m (genitive singular lax, nominative plural laxar)

1. salmon

• laxbleikur:
• laxbleikur litur m

From Proto-Italic *laks, from the same source as laciō (“entice”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laks/, [ɫaks]

lax f (genitive lacis); third declension

1. deception, fraud

Third declension.

• fraus

• 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

• lex

From Old English leax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.

• IPA^(key): /laks/, /lɛks/

lax (plural lax or laxes)

1. salmon

• English: lax
• Scots: lax

• “lax (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-23.

From Proto-Germanic *lahsaz.

lax m

1. salmon

• Danish: laks
• Icelandic: lax
• Norwegian: laks
• Swedish: lax

From Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz. The 1000kr meaning comes from the color of the 1000kr bill which was the same color as a salmon.

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lax c

1. salmon
2. (slang) a bill with nominal value 1000 kronor or the corresponding amount of money

• laxrosa