lacteus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈlak.te.us/, [ˈɫ̪äkt̪eʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlak.te.us/, [ˈläkt̪eus]
Adjective
[edit]lacteus (feminine lactea, neuter lacteum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to milk; milky.
- (poetic) Full of milk.
- Milk-drinking, suckling.
- Milk-white.
- (figuratively) Pure.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | lacteus | lactea | lacteum | lacteī | lacteae | lactea | |
genitive | lacteī | lacteae | lacteī | lacteōrum | lacteārum | lacteōrum | |
dative | lacteō | lacteae | lacteō | lacteīs | |||
accusative | lacteum | lacteam | lacteum | lacteōs | lacteās | lactea | |
ablative | lacteō | lacteā | lacteō | lacteīs | |||
vocative | lactee | lactea | lacteum | lacteī | lacteae | lactea |
Synonyms
[edit]- (suckling): lactāris
- (milk-white): albus, candidus, lacteolus, lacticolor
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italian: lazzo
- ⇒ French: laceron
- → Catalan: lacti
- → French: lacté
- → Italian: latteo
- → Spanish: lácteo
References
[edit]- “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacteus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the milky way: orbis lacteus
- the milky way: orbis lacteus