lacertus

• lacert

From Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), possibly from lacerta (“lizard”). Compare muscle, derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice.

lacertus (plural lacerti)

1. (anatomy) A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.

• lacertus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈker.tus/, [ɫaˈkɛr.tʊs]

Lacertus

Uncertain.

lacertus m (genitive lacertī); second declension (feminine lacerta)

1. Alternative form of lacerta: a lizard.

Second declension.

Lacertus

Uncertain. Possibly from lacerta (“lizard”), as musculus derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *lēk- (“leg, q.v.”)

lacertus m (genitive lacertī); second declension

1. (anatomy) The muscular part of the upper arm, including the shoulder, biceps, and triceps.
2. (anatomy) The arm.
3. (anatomy, Late Latin) A muscle.

Second declension.

• lacerō
• lacertōsus
• lacertulus

• lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.