lacey

See also: Lacey

English

Adjective

lacey (comparative lacier, superlative laciest)

1. Alternative spelling of lacy
   • 1901, Helen Follett Stevans, The Woman Beautiful‎^[1]:

     Skirts of white muslin, with pretty frills and lacey trimmings that fall in soft folds and ruffles around one's feet, are mighty dainty things for the summer girl--but is there a colder sound than that of a starched white petticoat in the dead of winter?

   • 1914, Virginia Brooks, Little Lost Sister‎^[2]:

     She was dressed in a lacey gown, a size too large for her.

   • 2008 July 11, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     Michael Brown’s stainless-steel simulation of a cracked mirror freezes an act of anarchy into a lovely, lacey web.

Anagrams

• Caley, alecy, claye

Afar

Afar numbers ^(edit)

	60[a], [b]
←  5	6	7  →
Cardinal: lacéy     Ordinal: laceyháytu     Fractional: laceytá

Alternative forms

• lecéy

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Iraqw lahhóoʼ, Sidamo lee, Somali líx and Saho lix, Kambaata lého.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈħej/ [lʌˈħɛj]
• Hyphenation: la‧cey

Noun

lacéy m 

1. six

Usage notes

• When used as a determiner, the genitive case is used:

  Licá númu. ― Six people.

• When counting, the predicative case is used.

Declension

Declension of lacéy
absolutive	lacéy
predicative	lacéyi, lacéeyi
subjective	lacéy
genitive	licá, lacá
Postpositioned forms l-case lacéyil, lacéeyil k-case lacéyik, lacéeyik t-case lacéyit, lacéeyit h-case lacéyih, lacéeyih