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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Cognate with Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “cistern, tank, pit”) and Old English lagu (“sea, ocean, flood”). More at lay.
Pronunciation
Noun
lacus m (genitive lacūs); fourth declension
- a lake, pond, basin; reservoir
- a tank, tub, sink, vat, wine-vat
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.558:
- inque cavōs ierant tertia musta lacūs
- and three times had the must been poured into the hollow wine-vats
(The Latin word lacus, meaning ‘‘hollow’’ or ‘‘lake’’, also described a container used in ancient winemaking. See also mustum and must.)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ubus).
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References
- “lacus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacus 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)
- lacus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lacus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lacus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin