lapsa

lapsa is a Latin form of labor, meaning “toil, work; (verb) slip, glide”. It is the perfect deponent participle nominative plural neuter.

Found 63 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 3.44: … nunc defit quám genus. Námque regnum súppetebat mi, út scias, quanto é loco, Quántis opibus, quíbus de rebus lápsa fortuna áccidat. quid? huic calix mulsi impingendus est, ut plorare desinat, aut aliquid eius modi? ecce tibi …

Cicero, De Officiis 2.9: … tibi cupio esse notissimam. Hoc autem, de quo nune agimus, id ipsum est, quod utile appellatur. In quo verbo lapsa consuetudo deflexit de via sensimque eo deducta est, ut honestatem ab utilitate secernens constitueret esse h …

Ovid, Ibis 424: Lapsaque per medias effluat usque manus.

All forms of labor (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.