lask

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /lɑːsk/    美 /læsk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment. uncountable
    — Pannick ſtoppeth the laske as Millet doth, being boiled (as Plinie reporteth) in Goates milk and drunke twiſe in a day.
动词 v.
  1. To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea. intransitive,obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. Lax, weak; specifically of the bowels: affected by diarrhoea; loose. obsolete

词形变化

lasks present,singular,third-person lasking participle,present lasked participle,past lasked past laske alternative more lask comparative most lask superlative lasks plural laske alternative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lasken (“to diminish, weaken (the blood or other body fluids, body tissues, etc.); to thin (the blood through bloodletting); to alleviate (pain, sickness); to grow weak; to shorten (one’s life)”) [and other forms], from Old Northern French *lasquer, Old French lascher, laschier (“to let go of, release; to loosen, relax”) (modern French lâcher (“to let go of, release; to loosen”)), from Vulgar Latin *lascāre, *lassicāre, from Latin *laxicāre, the frequentative of Latin laxāre, the present active infinitive of laxō (“to relax, weaken; to release, undo; to make wide, open”), from laxus (“free, loose, slack; roomy, spacious, wide”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g- (“faint; weak”).
词源 2
From Middle English laske (“lax, weak; of the bowels: loose”), from Old Northern French *lasque, Old French laske, lasche (“not taut or tight, limp”) (modern French lâche (“loose, slack”)), from Old French lascher, laschier (“to let go of, release; to loosen, relax”): see further at etymology 1.
词源 3
From the adjective: see etymology 2.
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