lacca

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English lecture.

Noun

laccā̀ f (plural laccōcī, possessed form laccàr̃)

  1. lecture

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -akka

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin lacca, of Indian origin via Arabic.

Noun

lacca f (plural lacche)

  1. varnish, lacquer

Etymology 2

From Late Latin laccum (“ditch, pond”), from Old High German lahhā, lacha from Proto-Germanic *lakō.

Noun

lacca f (plural lacche)

  1. (archaic) hole, pit
    • Dante, Commedia Inferno.VII.16-18
      Così scendemmo ne la quarta lacca / pigliando più de la dolente ripa / che 'l mal dell'universo tutto insacca.
      Then we passed downward to the fourth pit / Making distance from the dismal bank / Swallowing all the world's evil in it.

Etymology 3

See etymology on the main entry.

Verb

lacca

  1. third-person singular present indicative of laccare
  2. second-person singular imperative of laccare

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *lēk- (“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”). Compare English leg and Latin lacertus (“upper arm”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlak.ka/, [ˈɫak.ka]

Noun

lacca f (genitive laccae); first declension

  1. A swelling on the shinbone of cattle
  2. An unknown kind of plant

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative lacca laccae
genitive laccae laccārum
dative laccae laccīs
accusative laccam laccās
ablative laccā laccīs
vocative lacca laccae

References

  • lacca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lacca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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