lacerta
See also: Lacerta
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
lacerta (plural lacertas)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. Perhaps connected to Ancient Greek λικερτίζειν (likertízein, “to spring, dance”) or to Latin lacertum (“upper arm”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈker.ta/, [ɫ̪äˈkɛrt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈt͡ʃer.ta/, [läˈt͡ʃɛrt̪ä]
Noun edit
lacerta f (genitive lacertae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lacerta | lacertae |
Genitive | lacertae | lacertārum |
Dative | lacertae | lacertīs |
Accusative | lacertam | lacertās |
Ablative | lacertā | lacertīs |
Vocative | lacerta | lacertae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- from lacerta:
- from *lacertula:
- from the masculine variant lacertus m:
- Vulgar Latin: *lacartum m
- from *lacarta:
- Asturian: llagarta, llagartesa
- Portuguese: lagarta
- >? Dalmatian: lačas m, lačar f
- >? Sardinian: lugesti, lucesti, lugestra, luxeta, calaxerta, caluxerta
- borrowings:
- Translingual: Lacerta, Lacertidae, Lacertilia
- Esperanto: lacerto
- Irish: laghairt f
- Scottish Gaelic: laghairt m or f
References edit
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacerta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English edit
Noun edit
lacerta
- Alternative form of lesarde