lacusta

See also: lãcustã, lăcustă, and Lăcustă

Latin

Etymology

Modification of Classical locusta (“locust, lobster”), likely influenced by lacertus (“lizard”) or lacus (“lake”).

Noun

lacusta f (genitive lacustae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, nonstandard) Alternative form of locusta (“locust, lobster”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lacusta	lacustae
genitive	lacustae	lacustārum
dative	lacustae	lacustīs
accusative	lacustam	lacustās
ablative	lacustā	lacustīs
vocative	lacusta	lacustae

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: lãcustã
  • Romanian: lăcustă
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: argust
  • Italian: aligusta (obsolete), aragosta
  • Sicilian: lagusta
• Old French: laöste, laüste, laouste
• Old Occitan: langosta
  • Catalan: llagosta
  • Occitan: langosta
  • → Old French: langouste
    • French: langouste (see there for further descendants)
• West Iberian
  • Asturian: llagosta, llangosta
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: lagosta, langosta
    • Portuguese: lagosta
  • Old Spanish: langosta
    • Spanish: lagosta, langosta

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “locusta (*lacusta)”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 367