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lacteus
lacteus
Latin
Adjective
lacteus m (feminine lactea, neuter lacteum); first/second declension
- Of or pertaining to milk; milky.
- (poetic) Full of milk.
- Milk-drinking, suckling.
- Milk-white.
- (figuratively) Pure.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | lacteus | lactea | lacteum | lacteī | lacteae | lactea | |
| genitive | lacteī | lacteae | lacteī | lacteōrum | lacteārum | lacteōrum | |
| dative | lacteō | lacteō | lacteīs | ||||
| accusative | lacteum | lacteam | lacteum | lacteōs | lacteās | lactea | |
| ablative | lacteō | lacteā | lacteō | lacteīs | |||
| vocative | lactee | lactea | lacteum | lacteī | lacteae | lactea | |
Synonyms
Derived terms
- circulus lacteus
Related terms
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Descendants
References
- lacteus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lacteus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lacteus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the milky way: orbis lacteus
- the milky way: orbis lacteus