lactific
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- lactifical (rare)
Etymology edit
From Latin lac, lactis (“milk”) + facere (“to make”).
Adjective edit
lactific (comparative more lactific, superlative most lactific)
- Producing or yielding milk.
- 2003, E. P. Evans, Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture, page 37:
- The necklace of clear rock-crystal, still commonly worn by wet-nurses, is a survival of the belief in the lactific virtue of this variety of limpid quartz.