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Etymology
Borrowed from English lecture.
Pronunciation
Noun
laccā̀ f (plural laccōcī, possessed form laccàr̃)
- lecture
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old High German lahhā, lacha from Proto-West Germanic *laku.
Noun
lacca f (plural lacche)
- (archaic) hole, pit
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, page 107, lines 16–18:Così scendemmo ne la quarta lacca, ¶ pigliando più de la dolente ripa ¶ che ’l mal de l’universo tutto insacca.- Thus we descended into the fourth chasm, gaining still farther on the dolesome shore which all the woe of the universe insacks.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Late Latin lacca (“swelling on the shinbone of cattle”).
Noun
lacca f (plural lacche) (archaic or regional, rare)
- poplite muscle
- Synonym: poplite
- thigh (of a four-legged animal)
- Synonym: coscia
- (by extension) (human) buttock
- Synonym: natica
Etymology 3
From Medieval Latin lacca, of Arabic لَكّ (lakk), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).
Noun
lacca f (plural lacche)
- varnish, lacquer
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
lacca
- inflection of laccare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *lēk- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”). Compare English leg and Latin lacertus (“upper arm”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lacca f (genitive laccae); first declension
- A swelling on the shinbone of cattle
- An unknown kind of plant
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “lacca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lacca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.