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See also: Lacerta
Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
lacerta (plural lacertas)
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown. Perhaps connected to Ancient Greek λικερτίζειν (likertízein, “to spring, dance”) or to Latin lacertum (“upper arm”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈker.ta/, [ɫ̪äˈkɛrt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈt͡ʃer.ta/, [läˈt͡ʃɛrt̪ä]
Noun[edit]
lacerta f (genitive lacertae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lacerta | lacertae |
Genitive | lacertae | lacertārum |
Dative | lacertae | lacertīs |
Accusative | lacertam | lacertās |
Ablative | lacertā | lacertīs |
Vocative | lacerta | lacertae |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- from lacerta:
- from *lacertula:
- from the masculine variant lacertus m:
- Vulgar Latin: *lacartum m
- from *lacarta:
- Asturian: llagarta, llagartesa
- Portuguese: lagarta
- >? Dalmatian: lačas m, lačar f
- >? Sardinian: lugesti, lucesti, lugestra, luxeta, calaxerta, caluxerta
- borrowings:
- Translingual: Lacerta, Lacertidae, Lacertilia
- Esperanto: lacerto
- Irish: laghairt f
- Scottish Gaelic: laghairt m or f
References[edit]
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacerta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
lacerta
- Alternative form of lesarde