lacteus

Latin

Etymology

From lac (“milk”) +‎ -eus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫak.te.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlak.te.us]

Adjective

lacteus (feminine lactea, neuter lacteum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to milk; milky.
2. (poetic) Full of milk.
3. Milk-drinking, suckling.
4. Milk-white.
5. (figuratively) Pure.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lacteus	lactea	lacteum		lacteī	lacteae	lactea
genitive	lacteī	lacteae	lacteī		lacteōrum	lacteārum	lacteōrum
dative	lacteō	lacteae	lacteō		lacteīs
accusative	lacteum	lacteam	lacteum		lacteōs	lacteās	lactea
ablative	lacteō	lacteā	lacteō		lacteīs
vocative	lactee	lactea	lacteum		lacteī	lacteae	lactea

Synonyms

• (suckling): lactāris
• (milk-white): albus, candidus, lacteolus, lacticolor

Derived terms

• circulus lacteus
• Via Lactea

Related terms

• lac
• lactāneus
• lactāris
• lactārius
• lactātum
• lacteō
• lacteolus
• lactēscō
• lacticīnium
• lactifer
• lactineus
• lactō
• lactoris
• lactūca
• lactūcārius

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: lazzo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Old French:
    • Lorrain: lasson
    • Norman: laceron
      • → French: laceron
    • Picard: lasseron
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: lacti
  • → French: lacté
  • → Italian: latteo
  • → Portuguese: lácteo
  • → Spanish: lácteo

References

• “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lacteus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the milky way: orbis lacteus