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lax

Pronunciation: /læks/

The English word “lax” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A salmon.
  2. lacrosse.

adjective

  1. Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
  2. Loose; not tight or taut.
  3. Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
  4. Describing an associative monoidal functor.
  5. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheic.
  6. (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.

Etymology

From Middle English lax, from Old English 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…

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