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Borrowed from New Latinlatex(“clear fluid which is part of a humour or bodily fluid”), a later use of Latinlatex(“water; liquid, fluid”). Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greekλᾰ́τᾰξ(látax, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic*lati- (Old Irishlaith(“liquid, beer”), Welshllad(“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic*ladjō- (Old High Germanletto(“clay, loam”), Old Norseleðja(“mud, dregs”)) or from a Pre-Greek language.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “latex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 329
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λάταξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 837
^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “latex”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
“latex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“latex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
latex 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)
latex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “latex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 329
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λάταξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 837
^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “latex”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press