German

Noun

Latex m

1. latex (rubber)

English

Latex being extracted from a tree

Noun

latex ‎(plural latices or latexes)

1. (medicine, archaic, rare) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
2. The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
3. An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.
4. (uncountable) Natural latex rubber, especially non-vulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.

Translations

External links

• latex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• exalt

References

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “latex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 329
2. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “λάταξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 837
3. ↑ Philippa, M.; Debrabandere, F.; Quak, A.; Schoonheim, T.; Van der Sijs, N. (2003–2009), “latex”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

• “latex, n.”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2015.

French

Etymology

From New Latin latex ‎(“clear fluid which is part of a humour or bodily fluid”), a later use of Latin latex ‎(“water; liquid, fluid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.tɛks/

Noun

latex m ‎(uncountable)

1. latex (milky sap of trees)
2. latex (emulsion of rubber in water)

References

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

Latin

Etymology

Potential a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ ‎(látax, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *lati- (Old Irish laith ‎(“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad ‎(“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō- (Old High German letto ‎(“clay, loam”), Old Norse leðja ‎(“mud, dregs”)) or from a Pre-Greek language.^[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.teks/, [ˈɫa.tɛks]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.teks/, [ˈlaː.teks]

Noun

latex m ‎(genitive laticis); third declension

(classical, chiefly poetic)

1. water
2. liquid, fluid
3. (in the plural) springs
4. juice, oil, milk

(New Latin)

1. (medicine) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
2. (botany) Milky liquid which exudes from a plant when cut and which coagulates on exposure to air.

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

References

• latex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• latex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• LATEX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “latex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• “latex, n.”, in OED Online, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2015.

1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “latex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 329
2. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “λάταξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 837
3. ↑ Philippa, M.; Debrabandere, F.; Quak, A.; Schoonheim, T.; Van der Sijs, N. (2003–2009), “latex”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press