lac

From Portuguese laca, from Persian لاک‎ (lāk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).

• IPA^(key): /læk/

lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)

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

From Urdu لاکھ‎, from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लक्षं (lakṣaṃ).

• lakh

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɑk/

lac (plural lacs)

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

From Cadillac.

IPA^(key): /læk/

lac (plural lacs)

1. (slang) Short for Cadillac.

   Last night I was driving around in my lac.

   • 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"

     Macs drive lacs.

• (Cadillac): caddie, caddy

lac (plural lacs)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Laceration.

   hand lac

• ACL, CLA, Cal, Cal., LCA, alc, cal

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

lac

1. lake

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

lac m

1. lake

From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

• IPA^(key): /lak/

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

lac m (plural lacs)

1. lake

• “lac” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ACL

lac

1. (Classical K'iche') plate

• lacte
• lact

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵlákt n (gen. *ǵlaktós) (compare Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”), Old Armenian կաթն (katʿn), Albanian dhallë (“buttermilk”), Waigali zōr (“milk”), Hittite [script needed] (galaktar, “balm, resin”)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lak/, [ɫak]

lac n (genitive lactis); third declension

1. milk

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

2. for something sweet, pleasant

   In melle sunt linguae sitae vostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita, atque acerbo aceto.

   In honey your tongues and speeches are dipped, and in milk; your hearts are smeared with gall and with bitter vinegar. (Plautus)

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

   That minds may endure being satisfied as by the milk of a more pleasant discipline. (Quintilian)

3. milky juice

   Lac herbae. ― Milk of a plant.

   cum lacte veneni. ― with poisonous milk.

   • Anonymous (formerly misattributed to Ovid), Nux

     Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est,
     nec mala sunt ulli nostra futura bono.

     As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,
     my future fruits are not good to anyone.

4. (poetic) milk-white color
   • Publius Ovidius Naso, Ars Amatoria I.290:

     Forte sub umbrosis nemorosae vallibus Idae
     candidus, armenti gloria, taurus erat,
     signatus tenui media inter cornua nigro;
     una fuit labes, cetera lactis erant.

     As fortune had it, in the shadowy valleys of forested Ida,
     there was a white bull, the glory of its herd,
     marked by slightly black colour between its horns;
     the blemish was (only) one, the rest were milk-white.

Third declension neuter.

• 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”)

• lac in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lac in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lac in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to imbibe error from one's mother's breasts: errorem cum lacte nutricis sugere (Tusc. 3. 1. 2)
    

From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

lac m (plural lacs)

1. (Jersey, geography) lake

From Proto-Germanic *laiką, from *laiko- (“play”), compare *laikaną. Cognates include Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 (laiks, “dance”).

• IPA^(key): /lɑːk/

lāc n or 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.

when neuter

when feminine

• heaþolāc

• lācan
• lǣċan

• Middle English: lake, lak, lac
  • English: lake (dialectal)

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

lac m (oblique plural las, nominative singular las, nominative plural lac)

1. lake

• French: lac
• Norman: lac (Jersey)

From Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₁g-.

• IPA^(key): /l͈aɡ/

lac

1. weak, feeble
2. (hair) soft, smooth

• lacaid
• lacatus

• Irish: lag
• Manx: lag
• Scottish Gaelic: lag

• “lac” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, French lac, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

lac n (plural lacuri)

1. lake

• lăcos

lac m

1. paint

• vernisch (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader), verneisch (Surmiran)

• laj[1]
• laz

Compare Middle Armenian լաճ (lač).

• (Northern Zazaki) IPA^(key): [ˈlɑdz]
• (Southern Zazaki) IPA^(key): [ˈlɑdʒ]
• Hyphenation: lac

lac m

1. son[2]

   O lacê mıno. ― He is my son.

   Lacê to lacê mı rê vano. ― Your son says to my son.

2. boy

   Çı lacê do rındo. ― What a beautiful boy.