Lac

See also lạc, lać, and -lac

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Portuguese laca < Persian لاک (lāk) < Template:Hi[[Category:Template:Hi derivations|Lac]] [[लाख#Template:Hi|लाख]] (lākh) < Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).

Noun

Singular Lac

Plural -

Lac (-)

1. A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect.

Translations

a resinous substance

Arabic: لك (lukk, lakk) m. Chinese: 桼 (qī) Finnish: lakka fi(fi) French: laque f. German: Lack de(de) m. Greek: ­­­­­λάκη (láki) f. Hebrew: לכה (lakah) f. Hungarian: lakk hu(hu) Italian: lacca it(it) f.

Japanese: ラッカー (rakkā) Kannada: ಅರಗು Korean: 래커 (raekeo) Persian: لاک (lāk) Polish: lakier pl(pl) m. Portuguese: laca pt(pt) f. Russian: лак (lak) m. Spanish: laca es(es) f. Thai: ครั่ง (khrâng)

Derived terms

• shellac

Etymology 2

From Urdu لاکھ; Hindustani लाख (lākh); Sanskrit लक्षं (lakṣaṇ)

Alternative spellings

• lakh

Noun

lac

1. One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).

Translations

lakh — see lakh

Anagrams

• ACL,
• Cal, Cal.
• LCA

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French

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“‘lake’”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Homophones: lacs, laque, laquent, laques

Noun

Lac m. (plural Lacs)

1. lake

Anagrams

• ACL,

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Latin

Alternative spellings

• lacte
• lact

Noun

lac (genitive lactis); n, third declension

1. milk

   Cum lacte nutricis. — With the nurse's milk.

2. for something sweet, pleasant

   In melle sunt linguae sitae nostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita.

   Ut mentes ... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur.

3. milky juice

   Lac herbae. — Milk of plants.

   cum lacte veneni. — with poisonous milk.

   Tenero dum lacte, quod intro est.

4. (poetic) milk-white color
   • Candidus taurus ... una fuit labes; cetera lactis erant, Ov. A. A. 1, 290 .

Related terms

lactāneus lactāris lactārius lactātum lacteō

lacteolus lactesco lacteus lacticīnium lactifer

lactineus lactō lactoris lactūca lactūcārius

Derived terms

• a lacte cunisque (from the cradle, from infancy)
• lac pressum (cheese)
• tam similem, quam lactis (as like as one egg is to another)
• qui plus lactis quam sanguinis habet (of tender age)

Descendants

Asturian: lleche Breton: [[laezh#Template:Br|laezh]] Catalan: llet Cornish: [[leth#Template:Kw|leth]] English: lactic Esperanto: lakto

French: lait Friulian: [[lat#Template:Fur|lat]] Galician: leite Ido: lakto Interlingua: lacte Italian: latte

Occitan: lach, lait Portuguese: leite Romanian: lapte Romansch: [[latg#Template:Rm|latg]] Spanish: leche Welsh: [[llaeth#Template:Cy|llaeth]]

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Old English

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *laikom from *laiko- ‘play’. Cognates include Old Norse leikr ( > Template:Dan leg (“‘game’”)), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks), “‘dance’”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɑːk/

Noun

lāc n, f

1. play, sport
2. battle, strife
3. gift, offering, sacrifice, booty; message
   • Hie drihtne lac begen brohton.

     They both brought an offering to the Lord.

Declension 1 (neut.)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	lāc	lāc
accusative	lāc	lāc
genitive	lāces	lāca
dative	lāce	lācum

Declension 2 (fem.)

	Singular	Plural
nominative	lāc	lāca
accusative	lāce	lāca
genitive	lāce	lāca
dative	lāce	lācum

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“‘lake’”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, French lac, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

Noun

Lac n. (plural lacuri)

1. lake

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