lactarius

See also: Lactarius

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫakˈtaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lakˈtaː.ri.us]

Etymology 1

Derived from the oblique stem lact- of lac (“milk”) +‎ -ārius (“-ary”)

Adjective

lactārius (feminine lactāria, neuter lactārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. pertaining or relating to milk

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lactārius	lactāria	lactārium		lactāriī	lactāriae	lactāria
genitive	lactāriī	lactāriae	lactāriī		lactāriōrum	lactāriārum	lactāriōrum
dative	lactāriō	lactāriae	lactāriō		lactāriīs
accusative	lactārium	lactāriam	lactārium		lactāriōs	lactāriās	lactāria
ablative	lactāriō	lactāriā	lactāriō		lactāriīs
vocative	lactārie	lactāria	lactārium		lactāriī	lactāriae	lactāria

Descendants

• Aromanian: lãptar
• Asturian: llecheru
• Catalan: lleter
• French: laitier, ⇒ laiteron
• Friulian: latâr
• Galician: leiteiro
• Italian: lattaio
• Occitan: lachièr
• Portuguese: leiteiro
• Romanian: lăptar, lăptare
• Sicilian: lattaru
• Spanish: lechero
• Venetan: latèr
• → French: lactaire
• → Portuguese: lactário
• → Spanish: lactario

Etymology 2

Noun use of the above adjective.

Noun

lactārius m (genitive lactāriī or lactārī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) milkman

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lactārius	lactāriī
genitive	lactāriī lactārī1	lactāriōrum
dative	lactāriō	lactāriīs
accusative	lactārium	lactāriōs
ablative	lactāriō	lactāriīs
vocative	lactārie	lactāriī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: lattaio

References

• “lactarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lactarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lactarius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers