different between lac vs lack

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)

1. 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)

1. Alternative spelling of lakh

Etymology 3

From Cadillac.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /læk/

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

1. (slang) Short for Cadillac.
   • 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"

     Macs drive lacs.

Synonyms

• (Cadillac): caddie, caddy

Etymology 4

From laceration.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /læs/

Noun

lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)

1. (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

1. lake

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lac m

1. 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)

1. 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

1. (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

1. milk

2. for something sweet, pleasant

3. 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.

4. (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)

1. (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

1. play, sport
2. battle, strife
3. 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)

1. 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

1. weak, feeble
2. (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)

1. lake

Declension

Derived terms

• l?cos

Romansch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

lac m

1. 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

1. son

2. boy

References

English

Etymology

Middle English, cognate with or from Middle Low German lak, Middle Dutch lac (“deficiency”) and Middle Dutch laken (“blame, lack”); all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laka-, related to *lak(k)?n- (“to blame, reproach”), from Proto-Indo-European *lok-néh?-. See also Dutch lak (“calumny”), Old Norse lakr (“lacking”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lak/
• (US) IPA^(key): /læk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Noun

lack (countable and uncountable, plural lacks)

1. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
2. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     […] let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend estimation;

   • 1994, Green Day, Basket Case

     I went to a shrink, to analyze my dreams. He said it's lack of sex that's bringing me down.

Antonyms

• glut
• surplus

Derived terms

• lackless

Translations

Verb

lack (third-person singular simple present lacks, present participle lacking, simple past and past participle lacked)

1. (transitive) To be without, to need, to require.

   My life lacks excitement.

2. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).

   He'll never lack for company while he's got all that money.

   • c. 1600,, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 4,^[2]

     Hamlet. What hour now?

     Horatio. I think it lacks of twelve.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in want.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 34.10,^[3]

     The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger […]

4. (obsolete) To see the deficiency in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.

Related terms

• lackluster

Translations

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “lak(k)on-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 325

Anagrams

• calk, kcal

German

Pronunciation

Verb

lack

1. imperative singular of lacken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of lacken

Swedish

Etymology

From French lacre (“sealing wax”), from Portuguese laca.

Noun

lack n

1. lacquer

Declension

Related terms

• klarlack
• lacknafta
• lackskor
• nagellack