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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
lāicus (feminine lāica, neuter lāicum); first/second-declension adjective
- lay (of the laity)
- unconsecrated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “laicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laicus 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)
- laicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.