different between lac vs mac

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?k, IPA^(key): /mæk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

Clipping of mackintosh.

Noun

mac (plural macs)

1. Clipping of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of macaroni.

Noun

mac (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US, slang) Clipping of macaroni.

   Is there any mac and cheese left?

Derived terms

• mac 'n' cheese

Anagrams

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CAM, CMA, Cam, MCA, cam

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, slang) Clipping of maquereau (“pimp”).

Etymology 2

Noun

mac m (plural macs)

1. (colloquial, computing) Clipping of Macintosh.

Further reading

• “mac” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ????? (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makk?os, a variant of *mak?os (“son”) (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /m??k/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /m?a?k/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /m?ak/

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son
2. A common prefix of many Irish and Scottish names, signifying "son of".

Declension

Coordinate terms

• iníon (“daughter”)

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "mac" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

K'iche'

Noun

mac

1. (Classical K'iche') sin

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ????? (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makk?os, a variant of *mak?os (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh??- (“to raise, increase”).

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mec)

1. son

Derived terms

• mac-

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ????? (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makk?os, a variant of *mak?os (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh??- (“to raise, increase”).

Noun

mac m (genitive mic, nominative plural mic)

1. son

Descendants

• Irish: mac
• Manx: mac
• Scottish Gaelic: mac

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *makkos. Cognate with Welsh mach.

Noun

mac m

1. bond, surety

Inflection

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 mac(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Etymology 1

From a Slavic language, from Proto-Slavic *mak? (“poppy”), compare Serbo-Croatian and Polish mak.

Noun

mac m (plural maci)

1. poppy

Declension

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

mac

1. quack (sound made by ducks)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ????? (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makk?os, a variant of *mak?os (“son”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh??- (“to raise, increase”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ma?k], [maxk]

Noun

mac m (genitive singular mic, plural mic)

1. son
2. Commonly used as a prefix of Irish and Scottish surnames, meaning son.

   MacDhòmhnaill (“MacDonald”, literally “son of Donald, Donaldson”)

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “mac” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language