lac

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lac"

English

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Etymology 1

From Portuguese laca from Persian لاک (lāk) from Hindi लाख (lākh) from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).

Noun

lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)

1. A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect.

Translations

a resinous substance

• Arabic: لك (ar) m (lukk, lakk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 桼 (zh) (qī)

• Finnish: lakka (fi)
• French: laque (fr) f
• German: Lack (de) m
• Greek: λάκη f (láki)
• Hebrew: לכה f (lakah)
• Hungarian: lakk (hu)
• Italian: lacca f

• Japanese: ラッカー (rakkā)
• Kannada: ಅರಗು (kn) (aragu)
• Korean: 래커 (raekeo)
• Persian: لاک (fa) (lāk)
• Polish: lakier (pl) m
• Portuguese: laca (pt) f
• Russian: лак (ru) m (lak)
• Spanish: laca (es) f
• Thai: ครั่ง (khrâng)

Derived terms

• Ceylon lac
• lac dye
• lac lake
• Mexican lac
• seedlac
• shellac
• sticklac

Etymology 2

From Urdu لاکھ; Hindi लाख (lākh); Sanskrit लक्षं (lakṣaṃ).

Alternative forms

• lakh

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

1. One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).

Translations

lakh — see lakh

Etymology 3

From Cadillac.

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

1. (slang) Short for Cadillac.

   Last night I was driving around in my lac.

   • 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"

     Macs drive lacs.

Synonyms

• (Cadillac): caddie, caddy

Anagrams

• ACL
• Cal, Cal.
• LCA

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lac

1. lake

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lac m

1. lake

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French

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Etymology

From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lokus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Homophones: lacs, laque, laquent, laques

Noun

lac m (plural lacs)

1. lake

Anagrams

• ACL

External links

• “lac” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lac m (plural lacs)

1. (geography) lake

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Latin

Alternative forms

• lacte
• lact

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákts (gen. *ǵlaktós) (compare Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”), Old Armenian կաթն (katʿn), Albanian dhallë (“buttermilk”), Waigali zōr (“milk”), Hittite balm, resin (galaktar)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lak/, [ɫak]

Noun

lac n (genitive lactis); third declension

1. milk

   Cum lacte nutricis. — With the nurse's milk.

2. for something sweet, pleasant

   In melle sunt linguae sitae nostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita.

   Ut mentes ... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur.

3. milky juice

   Lac herbae. — Milk of a plant.

   cum lacte veneni. — with poisonous milk.

   Tenero dum lacte, quod intro est.

4. (poetic) milk-white color
   • Candidus taurus ... una fuit labes; cetera lactis erant, Ov. A. A. 1, 290 .

Inflection

Third declension neuter i-stem.

Number	Singular
nominative	lac
genitive	lactis
dative	lactī
accusative	lac
ablative	lacte
vocative	lac

Related terms

lactāneus lactāris lactārius lactātum lacteō lacteolus

lactesco lacteus lacticīnium lactifer lactineus lactō

lactōsus lactoris lactūca lactūcārius

Derived terms

• a lacte cunisque (from the cradle, from infancy)
• lac pressum (cheese)
• tam similem, quam lactis (as like as one egg is to another)
• qui plus lactis quam sanguinis habet (of tender age)

Descendants

Aromanian: lapte Asturian: lleche Breton: laezh Catalan: llet Cornish: leth English: lactic Esperanto: lakto French: lait

Friulian: lat Galician: leite Ido: lakto Interlingua: lacte Italian: latte Occitan: lach, lait Portuguese: leite Romanian: lapte

Romansch: latg, lat Sardinian: late, lati Sicilian: latti Spanish: leche Walloon: laecea Welsh: llaeth

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Rafsi

lac

1. rafsi of lacri.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *laiką from *laiko- (“play”). Cognates include Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”)), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑːk/

Noun

lāc n, f

1. play, sport
2. battle, strife
3. gift, offering, sacrifice, booty; message
   • Hie drihtne lac begen brohton.

     They both brought an offering to the Lord.

Declension

when neuter

Declension of lac (strong a-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	lāc	lāc
accusative	lāc	lāc
genitive	lāces	lāca
dative	lāce	lācum

when feminine

Declension of lac (strong ō-stem)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	lāc	lāca, lāce
accusative	lāce	lāca, lāce
genitive	lāce	lāca
dative	lāce	lācum

Derived terms

• heaþolāc

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”).

Noun

lac m (oblique plural las, nominative singular las, nominative plural lac)

1. lake

Descendants

• French: lac
• Jèrriais: lac

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *laggo-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.

Adjective

lac

1. weak, feeble
2. (hair) soft, smooth

Derived terms

• lacaid
• lacatus

Descendants

• Irish: lag
• Manx: lag
• Scottish Gaelic: lag

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lokus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, French lac, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

Noun

lac n (plural lacuri)

1. lake

Declension

declension of lac

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un lac	lacul	niște lacuri	lacurile
genitive/dative	unui lac	lacului	unor lacuri	lacurilor

Derived terms

• lăcos

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Romansch

Noun

lac m

1. paint

Synonyms

• vernisch, verneisch