lactosa
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Catalan
Noun
lactosa f (uncountable)
Further reading
- “lactosa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “lactosa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “lactosa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “lactosa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin lactem + -osa. Doublet of lechoso.
Noun
lactosa f (plural lactosas)
- (biochemistry) lactose
- 2022 May 18, “Nutrición y comida saludable [Nutrition and healthy food]”, in Healthy lifestyle, Mayo Clinic, retrieved 2023-03-19:
- Los tipos de azúcar incluyen azúcar de frutas (fructosa), azúcar de mesa (sucrosa) y azúcar de leche (lactosa).
- Types of sugar include fruit sugar (fructose), table sugar (sucrose) and milk sugar (lactose).
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Further reading
- “lactosa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10