lacca
Hausa
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlak.ka/
- Rhymes: -akka
- Stress: làcca
- Hyphenation: lac‧ca
Etymology 1
From Old High German lahhā, lacha from Proto-Germanic *lakō.
Noun
lacca f (plural lacche)
- (archaic) hole, pit
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, lines 16–18, page 107:
- Così scendemmo ne la quarta lacca, ¶ pigliando più de la dolente ripa ¶ che ’l mal de l’universo tutto insacca.
- Thus we descended into the fourth chasm, gaining still farther on the dolesome shore which all the woe of the universe insacks.
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Etymology 2
From Late Latin lacca (“swelling on the shinbone of cattle”).
Noun
lacca f (plural lacche) (archaic or regional, rare)
Etymology 3
From Medieval Latin lacca, of Persian origin via Arabic.
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
lacca
- inflection of laccare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *lēk- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”). Compare English leg and Latin lacertus (“upper arm”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlak.ka/, [ˈɫak.ka]
Noun
lacca f (genitive laccae); first declension
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lacca | laccae |
Genitive | laccae | laccārum |
Dative | laccae | laccīs |
Accusative | laccam | laccās |
Ablative | laccā | laccīs |
Vocative | lacca | laccae |
References
- lacca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lacca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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