FLAG Copy link • FLAG 1. v. TRANS., laxare: relaxare: remittere. INTRANS., laxari: relaxari: remitti: languescere: elanguescere: relanguescere (to become worn out, feeble, etc.): flaccescere (PROP., of sails; IMPROP., of an orator whose style becomes spiritless when he begins to write). Anybody’s courage flags, animus cadit: not to let one’s courage flag in any danger, nulli periculo animum submittere: to let one’s courage flag, animo demitti or se demittere; animum demittere or contrahere; animum contrahere et demittere; animum abjicere; animum despondere. 2. s. Of a ship, insigne (Caes., B.G., 2, 6): vexillum (used for giving the signal for attack; Vid: Nitsch, Alterthumskunde, vol. ii, p. 1172). To hoist up the flag, vexillum proponere: to strike (the flag), vexillum demittere, deducere. Of land forces [Vid: COLORS]. A plant, gladiolus (ξιφίον): *gladiolus communis (Linn.). A stone for paving (a side-path for foot-passengers), *lapis viae sternendae utilis (general term for any paving-stone).