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Yes. The word lassus is a Scrabble US word. The word lassus is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

LASSUS,

5-letter words (2 found)

LASSU,SAULS,

4-letter words (6 found)

ALUS,LASS,SALS,SASS,SAUL,SUSS,

3-letter words (7 found)

ALS,ALU,ASS,LAS,SAL,SAU,SUS,

2-letter words (4 found)

AL,AS,LA,US,

You can make 20 words from lassus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lassus

lassus

Noun

lassus

  1. plural of lassu

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lh₁d-to-s, verbal adjective from the root *leh₁d- (“to be tired”) +‎ *-tós. Compare Proto-Germanic *lataz (“slow, lazy”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈɫ̪äs̠ːʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlas.sus/, [ˈläsːus]

Adjective

lassus (feminine lassa, neuter lassum, comparative lassior, superlative lassissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. weary, faint, tired
  2. exhausted, used up

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • lēnis (“soft”)
  • lētum (“death, ruin”)

Descendants

  • Catalan: llas, las
  • French: las
  • Galician: laso
  • Italian: lasso
  • Portuguese: lasso
  • Spanish: laso

References

Further reading

  • “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lassus 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)
  • lassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Middle French

Etymology

Old French lassus, from la (“there”) +‎ sus (“upon; on top of”).

Preposition

lassus

  1. up there

References

  • lassus on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (lassus)

Source: wiktionary.org