lacerta
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lacerta (lizard)
See also: Lacerta
Interlingua
Noun
lacerta (plural lacertas)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps connected to Ancient Greek λικερτίζειν (likertízein, “to spring, dance”) or to Latin lacertum (“upper arm”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /laˈker.ta/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈt͡ʃer.ta/,
Noun
lacerta f (genitive lacertae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lacerta | lacertae |
| genitive | lacertae | lacertārum |
| dative | lacertae | lacertīs |
| accusative | lacertam | lacertās |
| ablative | lacertā | lacertīs |
| vocative | lacerta | lacertae |
Derived terms
Descendants
- From lacerta:
- Asturian: llacierta
- Franco-Provençal: lenzèrda
- Friulian: lisierte
- Gascon: lusèrt, lusèrp, lausèrt, lausèrp, lasèrp, ladèrt, ludèrt, lisèrp
- Lombard: lüserta
- Neapolitan: lacerta
- Norman: lêzarde (Jersey)
- Old French: laisarde
- Occitan:
- Piedmontese: laserta, laserda, lasarda, luserta
- Sicilian: lucerta
- Venetan: luxèrta, uxèrta, lisarda, rixarda
- from *lacertula:
- From the masculine variant lacertus:
- Vulgar Latin: *lacartum
- from *lacarta:
- Asturian: llagarta, llagartesa
- Portuguese: lagarta
- >? Dalmatian: lačas m, lačar f
- >? Sardinian: lugesti, lucesti, lugestra, luxeta, calaxerta, caluxerta
- borrowings:
- Translingual: Lacerta, Lacertidae, Lacertilia
- Esperanto: lacerto
- Irish: laghairt
- Scottish Gaelic: laghairt/f
References
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacerta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Noun
lacerta
- Alternative form of lesarde