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Latin
Etymology
Probably cognate with or borrowed from Ancient Greek λαρινός (larinós, “fat”) and λαρός (larós, “sweet, pleasing to the taste.”)
Pronunciation
Noun
lārdum n (genitive lārdī); second declension
- bacon fat, lard.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “lardum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lardum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lardum 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)
- lardum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.