Borrowed fromEnglishlecture.
- IPA(key): /lát͡ʃ.t͡ʃàː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA(key): [lát.t͡ʃàː]
laccā̀ f (plurallaccōcī,possessed formlaccàr̃)
- lecture
FromOld High Germanlahhā,lacha fromProto-West Germanic*laku.
lacca f (plurallacche)
- (archaic)hole,pit
1321,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published1994, Canto VII, page107, lines16–18:Così scendemmo ne la quartalacca, ¶ pigliando più de la dolente ripa ¶ che ’l mal de l’universo tutto insacca.- Thus we descended into the fourthchasm, gaining still farther on the dolesome shore which all the woe of the universe insacks.
Borrowed fromLate Latinlacca(“swelling on the shinbone of cattle”).
lacca f (plurallacche)(archaic or regional, rare)
- poplitemuscle
- Synonym:poplite
- thigh (of a four-legged animal)
- Synonym:coscia
- (by extension) (human)buttock
- Synonym:natica
FromMedieval Latinlacca, ofArabicلَكّ(lakk), fromPersianلاک(lâk), fromHindiलाख(lākh), fromSanskritलाक्षा(lākṣā).
lacca f (plurallacche)
- varnish,lacquer
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
lacca
- inflection oflaccare:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Perhaps fromProto-Indo-European*Hlak-,*lēk-(“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”). CompareEnglishleg andLatinlacertus(“upper arm”).
lacca f (genitivelaccae);first declension
- Aswelling on theshinbone ofcattle
- An unknown kind ofplant
First-declension noun.
- “lacca”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lacca inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
