lacca
Hausa edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English lecture.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old High German lahhā, lacha from Proto-West Germanic *laku.
Noun edit
lacca f (plural lacche)
- (archaic) hole, pit
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, page 107, lines 16–18:
- Così scendemmo ne la quarta lacca, ¶ pigliando più de la dolente ripa ¶ che ’l mal de l’universo tutto insacca.
- Thus we descended into the fourth chasm, gaining still farther on the dolesome shore which all the woe of the universe insacks.
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Late Latin lacca (“swelling on the shinbone of cattle”).
Noun edit
lacca f (plural lacche) (archaic or regional, rare)
- poplite muscle
- Synonym: poplite
- thigh (of a four-legged animal)
- Synonym: coscia
- (by extension) (human) buttock
- Synonym: natica
Etymology 3 edit
From Medieval Latin lacca, of Arabic لَكّ (lakk), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).
Noun edit
lacca f (plural lacche)
Etymology 4 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
lacca
- inflection of laccare:
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *lēk- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”). Compare English leg and Latin lacertus (“upper arm”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlak.ka/, [ˈɫ̪äkːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlak.ka/, [ˈläkːä]
Noun edit
lacca f (genitive laccae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lacca | laccae |
Genitive | laccae | laccārum |
Dative | laccae | laccīs |
Accusative | laccam | laccās |
Ablative | laccā | laccīs |
Vocative | lacca | laccae |
References edit
- “lacca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lacca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.