lactuca
See also: Lactuca
Latin
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Etymology
From lac (“milk”) + -ūcus (suffix common to several plant names).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /lakˈtuː.ka/, [ɫ̪äkˈt̪uːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lakˈtu.ka/, [läkˈt̪uːkä]
Noun
lactūca f (genitive lactūcae); first declension
- lettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), and other Lactuca species
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lactūca | lactūcae |
Genitive | lactūcae | lactūcārum |
Dative | lactūcae | lactūcīs |
Accusative | lactūcam | lactūcās |
Ablative | lactūcā | lactūcīs |
Vocative | lactūca | lactūcae |
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: lãptucã
- Asturian: llechuga
- Catalan: lletuga
- Dalmatian:
- → Proto-Slavic: *loťika
- South Slavic:
- West Slavic:
- → Proto-Slavic: *loťika
- Old French: laitue
- Friulian: latuie
- Galician: leituga
- Italian: lattuga
- Occitan: laituga, lachuga
- Portuguese: leituga
- Romanian: lăptucă (with lapatica from lapathum and lappa)
- Sardinian: lattuca, làtua, làtia, latuca
- Sicilian: lattuca
- Spanish: lechuga
- Translingual: Lactuca
- → Old English: lactuce, lactuc, leahtric
- → Middle Dutch: lachteke, lacteke, ladicke, ladeke, ledicke, ladich, ladik, ladike
- → Middle Low German: lādeke, lādike, ledeke
- → Old High German: letihha, lettih
- → Polish: laktuka
References
- “lactuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lactuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lactuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lactuca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray