laicus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
lāicus (feminine lāica, neuter lāicum); first/second-declension adjective
- lay (of the laity)
- unconsecrated
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | lāicus | lāica | lāicum | lāicī | lāicae | lāica | |
| Genitive | lāicī | lāicae | lāicī | lāicōrum | lāicārum | lāicōrum | |
| Dative | lāicō | lāicō | lāicīs | ||||
| Accusative | lāicum | lāicam | lāicum | lāicōs | lāicās | lāica | |
| Ablative | lāicō | lāicā | lāicō | lāicīs | |||
| Vocative | lāice | lāica | lāicum | lāicī | lāicae | lāica | |
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: llec, → laic
- → Dutch: leek
- → French: laïc, laïque
- Galician: leigo, → laico
- → Hungarian: laikus
- → Irish: láech
- Gallo-Italic:
- Old Italian: ladico
- >? Italian: laico
- Old French: lai
- → Old High German: laigo
- Portuguese: leigo, → laico
- Provençal: laic
- Old Spanish: lego
- Spanish: lego
- → Spanish: laico
References[edit]
- “laicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- laicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette