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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[weak]], [[slack]], [[hollow]] (Hp., Arist.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">λαπαρότης</b> [[weakness]] (Hp.); <b class="b3">λαπάρη</b> f. <b class="b2">the weak flanks</b>, pl. <b class="b2">the flank(s)</b> (Il.). - Beside it <b class="b3">λαπἁσσω</b>, <b class="b3">-ττω</b>, (<b class="b3">-ζω</b> Ath., H.), aor. <b class="b3">λαπάξαι</b>, fut. <b class="b3">λαπάξω</b> <b class="b2">weaken, make hollow, sunken, void</b> (Hp.), also [[destroy]] (A.); from there <b class="b3">λάπαξις</b> [[evacuation]] (Arist., medic.), <b class="b3">λαπαγμῶν ἐκκενώσεων</b> H., <b class="b3">λαπακτικός</b> [[evacuating]] (medic.). - On <b class="b3">λάπαθον</b> [[pitfall]] s. v. With <b class="b3">λαπαρός</b> cf. <b class="b3">λαγαρός</b>, <b class="b3">χαλαρός</b>, <b class="b3">πλα-δαρός</b> etc. with the same suffix and the same meaning (Chantraine Form. 227); a basic primary verb may have been retained in <b class="b3">ἔλαψα διέφθειρα</b>. <b class="b3">Κύπριοι</b> H. Lengthened from there (after <b class="b3">μαλάττω</b>? cf. <b class="b3">λαπάττων μαλάττων</b>, <b class="b3">λαγαρὸν ποιῶν</b> H.) <b class="b3">λαπάσσω</b>, <b class="b3">-ττω</b>; the usual meaning [[evacuate]] arose in the language of the medics from <b class="b2">weaken, make hollow, sunken</b>, referred to the stomach and the bowels. In the sense of [[destroy]] <b class="b3">λαπάξειν</b>, <b class="b3">-ξαι</b> agree with <b class="b3">ἀλαπάζω</b>, of which the relation to <b class="b3">λαπάσσω</b>, <b class="b3">-ζω</b> has not been explained; perhaps a cross with another word (Ruijgh L'élém. achéen 74f.).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Outside cognates fail; cf. W.-Hofmann s. [[lepidus]] (cf. on <b class="b3">λέπω</b>, <b class="b3">λεπτός</b>); Alb. [[laps]] [[tired]]? (Jokl WienAkSb. 168 : 1, 48; rejected in WP. 1, 92, Pok. 33).

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