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lab
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /læb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
Noun
lab (plural labs)
- (colloquial) A laboratory.
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
- A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
- (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
Derived terms
- lab coat
- lab rat
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
lab (plural labs)
- (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
lab (plural labs)
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Alb., BAL, BLA, abl., alb
Albanian
Etymology
- From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.
- Alternatively a back-formation based on Labëri (“Laberia”), borrowed from an unattested South Slavic *laban?ja < *olban?ja, rendering the native pre-Albanian name of the country; Albania, ??????? (Albanía). However, this is doubtful.
Noun
lab m (labe, f.)
- southern Albanian (male)
- (male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))
Related terms
- Labëri
- Labëria
- labërisht
- Labërishtja
- arbër
References
Danish
Noun
lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)
- paw
Inflection
Verb
lab
- imperative of labbe
Dutch
Alternative forms
- labo
Etymology
Short for laboratorium
Pronunciation
Noun
lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)
- (Netherlands) lab
Spanish
Noun
lab m (plural labs)
- lab (laboratory)
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /la?p?/
- Tone numbers: lab8
- Hyphenation: lab
Etymology 1
From Chinese ? (MC l?p?, “wax; candle”).
Noun
lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)
- candle
Etymology 2
From Chinese ? (MC l?p?, “cured meat”).
Verb
lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)
- to cure (meat) by drying or smoking
Adjective
lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)
- cured; dried; smoked
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lac
English
Etymology 1
From Portuguese laca, from Persian ???? (l?k), from Hindi ??? (l?kh)/Urdu ????? (l?kh), from Sanskrit ?????? (l?k??).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /læk/
Noun
lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)
- A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
lac (plural lacs)
- Alternative spelling of lakh
Etymology 3
From Cadillac.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /læk/
Noun
lac (plural lacs)
- (slang) Short for Cadillac.
- 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
- Macs drive lacs.
- 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
Synonyms
- (Cadillac): caddie, caddy
Etymology 4
From laceration.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /læs/
Noun
lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)
- (medicine, colloquial) Laceration.
- hand lac
Anagrams
- ACL, CLA, Cal, Cal., LCA, alc, cal, cal.
Aromanian
Etymology
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
Noun
lac
- lake
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
Noun
lac m
- lake
French
Etymology
From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Romanian lac, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lak/
- Rhymes: -ak
- Homophones: lacs, laque, laquent, laques
Noun
lac m (plural lacs)
- lake
Derived terms
- Grands Lacs
Further reading
- “lac” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ACL
K'iche'
Noun
lac
- (Classical K'iche') plate
Latin
Alternative forms
- lacte
- lact
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *dlakts, from Proto-Indo-European *?lákt n (gen. *?laktós) (compare Ancient Greek ???? (gála, “milk”), Old Armenian ???? (kat?n), Albanian dhallë (“buttermilk”), Waigali z?r (“milk”), Hittite [script needed] (galaktar, “balm, resin”)).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /lak/, [??äk]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lak/, [l?k]
Noun
lac n sg (genitive lactis); third declension
- milk
- for something sweet, pleasant
- milky juice
- c. 1st century BCE, Anonymous (formerly misattributed to Ovid), Nux
- Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est,
nec mala sunt ulli nostra futura bono.- As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,
my future fruits are not good to anyone.
- As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,
- Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est,
- c. 1st century BCE, Anonymous (formerly misattributed to Ovid), Nux
- (poetic) milk-white color
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.
Derived terms
- ? lacte c?n?sque (“from the cradle, from infancy”)
- lac pressum (“cheese”)
- tam similem, quam lactis (“as like as one egg is to another”)
- qui plus lactis quam sanguinis habet (“of tender age”)
Descendants
References
- lac in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lac in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lac in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French lac, from Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
Noun
lac m (plural lacs)
- (Jersey, geography) lake
Old English
Alternative forms
- læc
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *laik?, from *laiko- (“play”), compare *laikan?. Cognates include Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), Gothic ???????????????????? (laiks, “dance”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??k/
Noun
l?c n or f
- play, sport
- battle, strife
- gift, offering, sacrifice, booty; message
Declension
- when neuter
- when feminine
Derived terms
- heaþol?c
Related terms
- -l?c
- l?can
- l??an
Descendants
- Middle English: lake, lak, lac
- English: lake (dialectal)
Old French
Etymology
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
Noun
lac m (oblique plural las, nominative singular las, nominative plural lac)
- lake
Descendants
- French: lac
- Norman: lac (Jersey)
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *laggos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh?g-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?a?/
Adjective
lac
- weak, feeble
- (hair) soft, smooth
Derived terms
- lacaid
- lacatus
Descendants
- Irish: lag
- Manx: lag
- Scottish Gaelic: lag
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “lac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Compare Aragonese laco, Catalan llac, Esperanto lago, French lac, Italian lago, Maltese lag, Portuguese lago, Sardinian lagu, Spanish lago.
Noun
lac n (plural lacuri)
- lake
Declension
Derived terms
- l?cos
Romansch
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
lac m
- paint
Synonyms
- vernisch (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader), verneisch (Surmiran)
Zazaki
Alternative forms
- laj
- laz
Etymology
Compare Middle Armenian ??? (la?).
Pronunciation
- (Northern Zazaki) IPA(key): [?l?dz]
- (Southern Zazaki) IPA(key): [?l?d?]
- Hyphenation: lac
Noun
lac m
- son
- boy
References
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