lacteus

lacteus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin lac
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Latin -eus
Latin lacteus

    From lac (“milk”) + -eus.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    lacteus (feminine lactea, neuter lacteum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. Of or pertaining to milk; milky.
    2. (poetic) Full of milk.
    3. Milk-drinking, suckling.
    4. Milk-white.
    5. (figuratively) Pure.

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    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

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: lazzo
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • ⇒ Old French:
    • Borrowings:

    References

    • “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
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