lactuca

See also: Lactuca

Latin

lactuca

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

1. lettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (), 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

• lac
• lactāneus
• lactāris
• lactārius
• lactātum

• lacteō
• lacteolus
• lactēscō
• lacteus
• lacticīnium

• lactifer
• lactīneus
• lactō
• lactōris
• lactūcārius

Descendants

• Aromanian: lãptucã
• Asturian: llechuga
• Catalan: lletuga
• Dalmatian:
  • → Proto-Slavic: *loťika
    • South Slavic:
      • Old Church Slavonic: лоштика (loštika)
      • Bulgarian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
      • Macedonian: лоштика (loštika) (dialectal)
      • Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: ло̀ћика

        Latin script: lòćika

        • → Albanian: leqikë, loçike
      • Slovene: ločíka, ločičje
    • West Slavic:
      • Old Czech: locika
        • Czech: locika, locyka
      • Old Polish: łoczyga, łocyga
        • Polish: łoczyga
          • → Russian: лочи́га (ločíga)
      • Slovak: locika
• Old French: laitue
  • French: laitue
  • Norman: laitue (Jersey)
  • → Middle Dutch: latuwe
    • Dutch: latuw, lattouwe
  • → Middle English: letuse, letus, letys, letuce, letuze, letes, letows, letyse
    • English: lettuce
    • Scots: lettuce, lattice
    • → Welsh: letys
• 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
  • Middle High German: latech, lateche, leteche
    • German: Lattich
• → Polish: laktuka
  • → Belarusian: лату́к (latúk)
  • → Ukrainian: лату́к (latúk)
  • → Russian: лату́к (latúk)

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