lac

See also: LAC, Lac, lać, lâc, lắc, lạc, Lạc, -lac, and Appendix:Variations of "lac"

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læk/

Noun

lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)

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

Derived terms

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

 

Translations

a resinous substance

• Arabic: لُكّ‎ m (lukk), لَكّ‎ m (lakk)
• Assamese: লা (la)
• 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 (it) f

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

Etymology 2

From Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ‎, from Sanskrit लक्ष (lakṣa).

Alternative forms

• lakh

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑk/

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

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

Translations

lakh — see lakh

Etymology 3

From Cadillac.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /læk/

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

Etymology 4

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Laceration.

   hand lac

Anagrams

• ACL, CLA, Cal, Cal., LCA, alc, cal

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lac

1. lake

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lac m

1. lake

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French

Etymology

From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“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/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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

Noun

lac m (plural lacs)

1. lake

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ACL

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K'iche'

Noun

lac

1. (Classical K'iche') plate

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Latin

Alternative forms

• lacte
• lact

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lak/, [ɫ̪ak]

Noun

lac n sg (genitive lactis); third declension

1. milk

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

2. for something sweet, pleasant

   In melle sunt linguae sitae vostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita, atque acerbo aceto.

   In honey your tongues and speeches are dipped, and in milk; your hearts are smeared with gall and with bitter vinegar. (Plautus)

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

   That minds may endure being satisfied as by the milk of a more pleasant discipline. (Quintilian)

3. milky juice

   Lac herbae. ― Milk of a plant.

   cum lacte veneni. ― with poisonous milk.

   • Anonymous (formerly misattributed to Ovid), Nux

     Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est,
     nec mala sunt ulli nostra futura bono.

     As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,
     my future fruits are not good to anyone.

4. (poetic) milk-white color
   • Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria I.290:

     Forte sub umbrosis nemorosae vallibus Idae
     candidus, armenti gloria, taurus erat,
     signatus tenui media inter cornua nigro;
     una fuit labes, cetera lactis erant.

     As fortune had it, in the shadowy valleys of forested Ida,
     there was a white bull, the glory of its herd,
     marked by slightly black colour between its horns;
     the blemish was (only) one, the rest were milk-white.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	lac
Genitive	lactis
Dative	lactī
Accusative	lac
Ablative	lacte
Vocative	lac

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”)

• collactāneus
• lactāneus
• lactāris
• lactārius
• lactātum
• lacteō
• lacteolus
• lactesco
• lacteus
• lacticīnium
• lactifer
• lactineus
• lactō
• lactoris
• lactōsus
• lactūca
• lactūcārius

 

Descendants

• English: lactic
• Esperanto: lakto
  • Ido: lakto
• Franco-Provençal: lat
• Friulian: lat
• Interlingua: lacte
• Interlingue: lacte
• Italian: latte
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: lei
• Old French: lait
  • French: lait
    • Haitian Creole: lèt
  • Norman: lait
• Old Irish: lacht
  • Irish: lacht

• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: lleche
  • Extremaduran: lechi
  • Leonese: lleite, lleiche, lleche
  • Mirandese: lheite
• Old Portuguese: leite
  • Galician: leite
  • Portuguese: leite
    • Kabuverdianu: leti
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: llet
  • Occitan: lach, lait
• Old Spanish: leche
  • Ladino: leche
  • Spanish: leche
    • Cebuano: leche
    • Papiamentu: lechi

• Brythonic: *laïθ
  • Breton: laezh
  • Cornish: leth
  • Welsh: llaeth
• Proto-Romanian:
  • Aromanian: lapti
  • Romanian: lapte
• Romansch: latg, lat
• Sardinian: late, lati
• Sicilian: latti
• Venetian: lat, late
• Walloon: laecea

References

• lac in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lac in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lac in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
    

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lac m (plural lacs)

1. (Jersey, geography) lake

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Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɑːk/

Noun

lāc n or 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)

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

when feminine

Declension of lac (strong ō-stem)

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

Derived terms

• heaþolāc

Related terms

• -lāc
• lācan
• lǣċan

Descendants

• Middle English: lake, lak, lac
  • English: lake (dialectal)

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

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

1. lake

Descendants

• French: lac
• Norman: lac (Jersey)

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Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l͈aɡ/

Adjective

lac

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

Derived terms

• lacaid
• lacatus

Descendants

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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lac also llac after a proclitic	lac pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	lac also llac after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “lac”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“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
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lac	lacul	(niște) lacuri	lacurile
genitive/dative	(unui) lac	lacului	(unor) lacuri	lacurilor
vocative	lacule		lacurilor

Derived terms

• lăcos

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Romansch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lac m

1. paint

Synonyms

• vernisch (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader), verneisch (Surmiran)

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Zazaki

Alternative forms

• laj
• laz

Etymology

Compare Middle Armenian լաճ (lač).

Pronunciation

• (Northern Zazaki) IPA^(key): [ˈlɑdz]
• (Southern Zazaki) IPA^(key): [ˈlɑdʒ]
• Hyphenation: lac

Noun

lac m

1. son

   O lacê mıno. ― He is my son.

   Lacê to lacê mı rê vano. ― Your son says to my son.

2. boy

   Çı lacê do rındo. ― What a beautiful boy.