The story
- Latin · derived fromlaxo“relax, moderate, weaken”
- Vulgar Latin · derived fromlaxico
- Old French · derived fromlachesse“laxness”
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromlaches
- English todaylaches
From Anglo-Norman laches, from Old French lachesse (“laxness”), from laschier, from Vulgar Latin laxico, frequentative of Latin laxo (“relax, moderate, weaken”).
Words from the same roots
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.