lacerta
See also: Lacerta
Interlingua
Noun
lacerta (plural lacertas)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps connected to Ancient Greek λικερτίζειν (likertízein, “to spring, dance”) or to Latin lacertum (“upper arm”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /laˈker.ta/, [ɫ̪äˈkɛrt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈt͡ʃer.ta/, [läˈt͡ʃɛrt̪ä]
Noun
lacerta f (genitive lacertae); first declension
Declension
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
Descendants
- Asturian: llacierta, llagarta, llagartesa
- Catalan: llangardaix, lluert
- Dalmatian: lačas, lačar
- English: lizard, alligator
- Esperanto: lacerto
- Franco-Provençal: lezèrd
- French: lézard
- Friulian: lisierte
- Galician: lagarto
- Irish: laghairt
- Italian: lacerto, lucertola
- Lombard: lüserta
- Neapolitan: lacerta
- Norman: lêzarde (Jersey)
- Old French: laisarde
- Piedmontese: lazerta
- Portuguese: lagarta
- Sardinian: lugesti, lucesti, lugestra, luxeta, calaxerta, caluxerta
- Scottish Gaelic: laghairt
- Sicilian: lucèrtula, lucerta, gièrdula
- Spanish: lagarto
- Translingual: Lacerta, Lacertidae, Lacertilia
- Venetan: luxèrta, łuxèrtoła, uxèrta, oxèrtola, lisarda, rixarda
References
- “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
Noun
lacerta
- Alternative form of lesarde