lacerta

See also: Lacerta

Interlingua

Noun

lacerta (plural lacertas)

1. lizard

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Latin

lacerta (lizard)

Alternative forms

• lacertus

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

1. lizard

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

• lacertilia

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
• Venetian: luxèrta, łuxèrtoła, uxèrta, oxèrtola, lisarda, rixarda

Noun

(deprecated template usage) lacertā

1. ablative singular of lacerta

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.

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Middle English

Noun

lacerta

1. Alternative form of lesarde