lac
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Portuguese laca, from Persian لاک (lāk), from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)
- A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ, from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa).
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lac (plural lacs)
- One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Cadillac.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (UK) (file)
NounEdit
lac (plural lacs)
- (slang) Short for Cadillac.
- Last night I was driving around in my lac.
- 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
- Macs drive lacs.
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
From laceration.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)
- (medicine, colloquial) Laceration.
- hand lac
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
NounEdit
lac
DalmatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
NounEdit
lac m
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /lak/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) Audio (Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -ak
- Homophones: lacs, laque, laquent, laques
NounEdit
lac m (plural lacs)
Further readingEdit
- “lac” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
K'iche'Edit
NounEdit
lac
- (Classical K'iche') plate
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *dlakts, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákt n (gen. *ǵlaktós) (compare Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”), Old Armenian կաթն (katʿn), Albanian dhallë (“buttermilk”), Waigali zōr (“milk”), Hittite [script needed] (galaktar, “balm, resin”)).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lac n sg (genitive lactis); third declension
- milk
- Cum lacte nutricis. ― With the nurse's milk.
- for something sweet, pleasant
- In melle sunt linguae sitae vostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita, atque acerbo aceto.
- In honey your tongues and speeches are dipped, and in milk; your hearts are smeared with gall and with bitter vinegar. (Plautus)
- Ut mentes ... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur.
- That minds may endure being satisfied as by the milk of a more pleasant discipline. (Quintilian)
- milky juice
- Lac herbae. ― Milk of a plant.
- cum lacte veneni. ― with poisonous milk.
- c. 1st century BCE, Anonymous (formerly misattributed to Ovid), Nux
- Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est,
nec mala sunt ulli nostra futura bono.- As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,
my future fruits are not good to anyone.
- As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,
- Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est,
- (poetic) milk-white color
- 2 CE, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria I.290:
- Forte sub umbrosis nemorosae vallibus Idae
candidus, armenti gloria, taurus erat,
signatus tenui media inter cornua nigro;
una fuit labes, cetera lactis erant.- As fortune had it, in the shadowy valleys of forested Ida,
there was a white bull, the glory of its herd,
marked by slightly black colour between its horns;
the blemish was (only) one, the rest were milk-white.
- As fortune had it, in the shadowy valleys of forested Ida,
- Forte sub umbrosis nemorosae vallibus Idae
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | lac |
Genitive | lactis |
Dative | lactī |
Accusative | lac |
Ablative | lacte |
Vocative | lac |
Derived termsEdit
- a lacte cunisque (“from the cradle, from infancy”)
- lac pressum (“cheese”)
- tam similem, quam lactis (“as like as one egg is to another”)
- qui plus lactis quam sanguinis habet (“of tender age”)
DescendantsEdit
- Eastern Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: lat
- Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: làit
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Old French: lait (see there for further descendants)
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: late, lati
- Venetian: lat, late
- West Iberian:
- → Brythonic: *llaɨθ (see there for further descendants)
- →⇒ English: lactic, lact(o)-
- → Esperanto: lakto
- Ido: lakto
- → Interlingua: lacte
- → Interlingue: lacte
- → Old Irish: lacht (see there for further descendants)
ReferencesEdit
- lac in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lac in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lac in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
- (ambiguous) to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
NounEdit
lac m (plural lacs)
Old EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *laiką, from *laiko- (“play”), compare *laikaną. Cognates include Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lāc n or f
- play, sport
- battle, strife
- gift, offering, sacrifice, booty; message
- Hie drihtne lac begen brohton.
- They both brought an offering to the Lord.
DeclensionEdit
- when neuter
- when feminine
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
NounEdit
lac m (oblique plural las, nominative singular las, nominative plural lac)
DescendantsEdit
Old IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lac
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
MutationEdit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lac also llac after a proclitic |
lac pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “lac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, French lac, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.
NounEdit
lac n (plural lacuri)
DeclensionEdit
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RomanschEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lac m
SynonymsEdit
ZazakiEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Compare Middle Armenian լաճ (lač).
PronunciationEdit
- (Northern Zazaki) IPA(key): [ˈlɑdz]
- (Southern Zazaki) IPA(key): [ˈlɑdʒ]
- Hyphenation: lac
NounEdit
lac m
- son[2]
- O lacê mıno. ― He is my son.
- Lacê to lacê mı rê vano. ― Your son says to my son.
- boy
- Çı lacê do rındo. ― What a beautiful boy.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Todd, Terry Lynn (2008) , Brigitte Werner, editor, A Grammar of Dimili (also Known as Zaza)[1], Electronic edition, Giessen: Forum Linguistik in Eurasien e.V., page 145b
- ^ Keskin, Mesut (2010) , “lac”, in Wörterverzeichnis Zazaki-Deutsch, Deutsch-Zazaki (PDF), page 9a