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Webster 1913 Edition


Lac

Lac

,
Noun.
[Per.
lak
; akin to Skr.
lākshā
: cf. F.
lague
, It. & NL.
lacca
. Cf.
Lake
a color,
Lacquer
,
Litmus
.]
A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the
Laccifer lacca
(formerly
Coccus lacca
), a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance.
Stick-lac
is the substance in its natural state, incrusting small twigs. When broken off, and the coloring matter partly removed, the granular residuum is called
seed-lac
. When melted, and reduced to a thin crust, it is called
shell-lac
or
shellac
. Lac is an important ingredient in sealing wax, dyes, varnishes, and lacquers.
Ceylon lac
,
a resinous exudation of the tree
Croton lacciferum
, resembling lac.
Lac dye
,
a scarlet dye obtained from stick-lac.
Lac lake
,
the coloring matter of lac dye when precipitated from its solutions by alum.
Mexican lac
,
an exudation of the tree
Croton Draco
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lac

LAC

,
Noun.
Gum-lac, so called, but improperly, not being a gum, but a resin. It is deposited on different species of trees in the East Indies, by an insect called Chermes lacca. Stick lac is the substance in its natural state, encrusting small twigs. When broken off and boiled in water, it loses its red color, and is called seed lac. When melted and reduced to a thin crust, it is call shell lac. United with ivory black or vermilion, it forms black and red sealing wax. A solution with borax, colored by lampblack, constitutes Indian ink. Lac dissolved in alcohol or other menstrua, by different methods of preparation, constitutes various kinds of varnishes and lackers.

Definition 2024


lac

lac

See also: lać, lâc, lắc, lạc, Lạc, -lac, and Appendix:Variations of "lac"

English

Noun

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.
Translations
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

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

Etymology 3

From Cadillac.

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

Synonyms

Anagrams


Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lac

  1. lake

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lac m

  1. lake

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

lac m (plural lacs)

  1. lake

Anagrams


Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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 nostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    Ut mentes ... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. milky juice
    Lac herbae.Milk of a plant.
    cum lacte veneni. ― with poisonous milk.
    Tenero dum lacte, quod intro est.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. (poetic) milk-white color
    • Candidus taurus ... una fuit labes; cetera lactis erant, Ov. A. A. 1, 290 .

Inflection

Third declension neuter i-stem.

Case Singular
nominative lac
genitive lactis
dative lactī
accusative lac
ablative lacte
vocative lac

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)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • 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)
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)

Lojban

Rafsi

lac

  1. rafsi of lacri.

Norman

Etymology

From Latin lacus.

Noun

lac m (plural lacs)

  1. (Jersey, geography) lake

Old English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

when neuter
when feminine

Derived terms


Old French

Etymology

From Latin lacus (lake).

Noun

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

  1. lake

Descendants

  • French: lac
  • Norman: lac (Jersey)

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l͈aɡ/

Adjective

lac

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

Derived terms

  • lacaid
  • lacatus

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
lac
also llac after a proclitic
lac
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
lac
also llac after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Romanian

Etymology

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

Declension

Derived terms

  • lăcos

Romansch

Noun

lac m

  1. paint

Synonyms

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