English

Etymology 1

Portuguese laca < Persian (lāk), Hindi लाख (lākh) < Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).

Noun

lac

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

Translations

• Arabic: (lukk, lakk)
• Chinese: 桼 (qī)
• Finnish: lakka
• French: laque
• German: Lack
• Greek: ­­­­­λάκη (láki)
• Hungarian: lakk
• Hebrew: לכה (lakah)
• Italian: lacca

• Japanese: ラッカー (rakkā)
• Kannada: ಅರಗು
• Korean: 래커 (raekeo)
• Persian: (lāk)
• Polish: lakier
• Portuguese: laca
• Russian: лак (lak)
• Spanish: laca
• Thai: (khrâng)

Derived terms

• shellac

Etymology 2

From Hindustani लाख / (lākh) < लक्षं (lakṣaṇ)

Alternative spellings

• lakh

Noun

lac

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

Category:Hindi derivations Category:Persian derivations Category:Urdu derivations

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French

Pronunciation

• An audio transcript can be found at Fr-lac.ogg
• IPA: [lak]

Etymology

Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, Italian lago, Latin lacus, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

Noun

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1. lake

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Latin

Alternative spellings

• lacte
• lact

Noun

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1. milk
2. : Cum lacte nutricis. — With the nurse's milk.
3. for something sweet, pleasant
4. : In melle sunt linguae sitae nostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita.
5. : Ut mentes ... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur.
6. milky juice
7. : Lac herbae. — Milk of plants.
8. : cum lacte veneni. — with poisonous milk.
9. : ''Tenero dum lacte, quod intro est.
10. milk-white color
11. * ''Candidus taurus ... una fuit labes; cetera lactis erant, Ov. A. A. 1, 290 .

Related terms

• lactaneus|lactāneus
• lactaris|lactāris
• lactarius|lactārius
• lactatum|lactātum
• lacteo|lacteō

• lacteolus
• lactesco
• lacteus
• lacticinium|lacticīnium
• lactifer

• lactineus
• lacto#Latin|lactō
• lactoris
• lactuca|lactūca
• lactucarius|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

• English: lactic
• Italian: latte
• Spanish: leche

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Old English

Etymology

Apparently from Germanic *laikom, from *laiko- ‘play’.

Pronunciation

IPA: /lɑːk/

Noun

(plural same)

1. gift, offering, sacrifice, booty
2. * Hie drihtne lac begen brohton.
3. *: They both brought an offering to the Lord.

Category:Old English nouns

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Romanian

Etymology

Latin lacus. Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, French lac, Italian lago, Latin lacus, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.

Noun

lac f and m

1. lake

Category:Romanian nouns

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