lacteus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlak.te.us/, [ˈɫ̪äkt̪eʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlak.te.us/, [ˈläkt̪eus]
Adjective edit
lacteus (feminine lactea, neuter lacteum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to milk; milky.
- (poetic) Full of milk.
- Milk-drinking, suckling.
- Milk-white.
- (figuratively) Pure.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | lacteus | lactea | lacteum | lacteī | lacteae | lactea | |
| Genitive | lacteī | lacteae | lacteī | lacteōrum | lacteārum | lacteōrum | |
| Dative | lacteō | lacteō | lacteīs | ||||
| Accusative | lacteum | lacteam | lacteum | lacteōs | lacteās | lactea | |
| Ablative | lacteō | lacteā | lacteō | lacteīs | |||
| Vocative | lactee | lactea | lacteum | lacteī | lacteae | lactea | |
Synonyms edit
- (suckling): lactāris
- (milk-white): albus, candidus, lacteolus, lacticolor
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Italian: lazzo
- ⇒ French: laceron
- → Catalan: lacti
- → French: lacté
- → Italian: latteo
- → Spanish: lácteo
References edit
- “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the milky way: orbis lacteus
- the milky way: orbis lacteus