# laxa
## Ayutla Mixtec
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish naranja.

### Noun

laxa
* orange (fruit)

### References

* Hills O., Roberto, et al. (2004) Diccionario lulu ña̱ sanyaꞌá xiinꞌ nya̱nya̱ = Pequeño diccionario ilustrado en el mixteco de Ayutla, Gro.‎ (overall work in Ayutla Mixtec and Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 14

## Catalan
### Verb

laxa
* inflection of laxar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Chiquihuitlán Mazatec
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish naranja.

### Noun

laxa
* orange (fruit)

#### Derived terms

* laxa haxi
* laxa limorial
* laxa xuhu

### References

* Jamieson Capen, Carole (1996) Diccionario mazateco de Chiquihuitlán, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 34)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 49

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* laixa, las, laxe

### Etymology

From the medieval form lagea, previously documented in local Medieval Latin as lagena; from a substrate language; probably from Proto-Celtic *laginā (“blade”). Compare Welsh llain (“blade, sword, spear”) and Old Irish láige (“mattock, spade; broad spearhead”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaʃa̝/

### Noun

laxa f (plural laxas)
* flagstone; slab
    Synonyms: lastra, lousa
* flat outcrop

#### Derived terms

* Laxa
* Laxas

#### Descendants

* → Spanish: laja

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “lagia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “laja” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “laxa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “laxa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “laxa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “laja”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
* ↑ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 61

## Icelandic
### Noun

laxa
* indefinite accusative plural of lax
* indefinite genitive plural of lax

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lax, French laxiste, German lax, Italian lasso, Spanish laxo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaksa/, /ˈlaɡza/

### Adjective

laxa
* lax, loose, slack

#### Antonyms

* forta

#### Derived terms

* laxeskar (“to slacken, loosen, relax, unbend”)
* laxesko
* laxeso (“slackness, laxness, looseness”)
* laxigar
* laxigo

## Latin
### Verb

laxā
* second-person singular present active imperative of laxō

### References

* laxa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Old Norse
### Noun

laxa
* dative plural indefinite of lax m

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaɡsa/ [ˈlaɣ̞.sa]
* Rhymes: -aɡsa
* Syllabification: la‧xa

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

laxa
* feminine singular of laxo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

laxa
* inflection of laxar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative