lacu
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) lacū
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *lakō, *lōkiz (“stream, pool, water aggregation", originally "ditch, drainage, seep”), from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną (“to water, wet, irrigate, drain”), causative of Proto-Germanic *lekaną (“to leak, drain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”). Cognate with Old Saxon laca (in placenames, “lake, stream, brook”), Old High German lacha (“pool, water collected in a ditch, swamp”), Middle Dutch lāke (“pond, lake, stream, brook”), Middle Low German lāke (“water pooled in a riverbed”), Old Norse lækr (“slow flowing stream”), Old English leċċan (“to make wet, moisten”), Old Norse leka (“to drip, leak”). More at leak.
Pronunciation
Noun
lacu f
- pool, pond
- expanse of water, lake
- stream, watercourse
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Sicilian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin lacus, from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
Noun
lacu m
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English nouns
- Old English feminine nouns
- Old English ō-stem nouns
- Sicilian terms inherited from Latin
- Sicilian terms derived from Latin
- Sicilian terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Sicilian terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Sicilian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Sicilian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Sicilian lemmas
- Sicilian nouns
- Sicilian masculine nouns