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lixivus

lixivus

Latin

Adjective

lixīvus m ‎(feminine lixīva, neuter lixīvum); first/second declension

made into lye

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	lixīvus	lixīva	lixīvum		lixīvī	lixīvae	lixīva
genitive	lixīvī	lixīvae	lixīvī		lixīvōrum	lixīvārum	lixīvōrum
dative	lixīvō	lixīvae	lixīvō		lixīvīs
accusative	lixīvum	lixīvam	lixīvum		lixīvōs	lixīvās	lixīva
ablative	lixīvō	lixīvā	lixīvō		lixīvīs
vocative	lixīve	lixīva	lixīvum		lixīvī	lixīvae	lixīva

Descendants

Albanian: alisivë
Aromanian: alsivã
Catalan: lleixiu
English: lixivium, lixivial
French: lessive
Friulian: lissie
Greek: αλισίβα ‎(alisíva)

Italian: liscivia, lisciva
Portuguese: lixívia
Romanian: leșie
Sardinian: lessía
Sicilian: liscìa, ddiscìa
Spanish: lejía, lejío

References

lixivus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lixivus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.