lactuca

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Latin

lactuca

Etymology

From lac (“milk”) +‎ -ūcus (suffix common to several plant names),[1] in reference to the milky white substance (latex) exuded by cut lettuce stems.

Pronunciation

Noun

lactūca f (genitive lactūcae); first declension

  1. lettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lactuca maritima), and other Lactuca species

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lactūca lactūcae
genitive lactūcae lactūcārum
dative lactūcae lactūcīs
accusative lactūcam lactūcās
ablative lactūcā lactūcīs
vocative lactūca lactūcae

Descendants

References

  • “lactuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lactuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lactuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lactuca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lac, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320
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