lac

See also: lać, lâc, lắc, lạc, Lạc, -lac, and 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).

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.

Translations

a resinous substance

• Arabic: لُكّ m ‎(lukk), لَكّ m ‎(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 (it) 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

Derived terms

Ceylon lac lac dye lac lake Mexican lac

seedlac shellac sticklac

Etymology 2

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

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

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/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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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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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 [script needed] ‎(galaktar, “balm, resin”)).

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.‎

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. milky juice

   Lac herbae.‎ ― Milk of a plant.

   cum lacte veneni.‎ ― with poisonous milk.

   Tenero dum lacte, quod intro est.‎

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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

Inflection

Third declension neuter i-stem.

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”)

Derived terms

Terms derived from lac

• 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 Mirandese: lheite Old Portuguese: leite Galician: leite Portuguese: leite Kabuverdianu: leti Old Provençal: Catalan: llet Occitan: lach, lait Old Spanish: leche Ladino: leche Spanish: leche Cebuano: leche Papiamentu: lechi

Proto-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 & 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)
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], 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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Lojban

Rafsi

lac

1. rafsi of lacri.

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Norman

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lac m ‎(plural lacs)

1. (Jersey, geography) lake

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Old English

Etymology

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

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

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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
• 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.

References

• “lac” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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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
	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

Noun

lac m

1. paint

Synonyms

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