laqueus

Meaning

1. (declension-2, masculine) noose
2. (declension-2, masculine) snare, gin, trap
3. (declension-2, figuratively, masculine) chains, catena

Concepts

noose

snare

trap

🪤

loop

➿

fish trap

Synonyms

tenus

nodus

🪢

decipula

Translations

laço

strop

trappola

🪤

valstrik

armadilha

🪤

Schlinge

➿

Falle

🪤

piège

🪤

cappio

val

θηλιά

nó

🪢

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈɫa.kʷe.ʊs]

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *lakʷ- (“to ensnare”), with no certain cognates in any other Indo-European languages; possibly Proto-Indo-European *leh₁k- (“string, twig, tendril”). Alternative theories link the word to Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (“to bend; to twine”).