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From Classical lacn, from earlier lact, reformed based on the oblique stem lact-. Uncertain etymology; see lac(“milk”). The accusative lactem is attested as early as Petronius (where it is a satirized 'vulgar' form), and the nominative lactis is found in late antiquity.
“lactis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
lactis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
lactis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.