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lace
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /le?s/
- Rhymes: -e?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English lace, laace, las, from Old French las, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, based on Latin laqueus. Doublet of lasso.
Noun
lace (countable and uncountable, plural laces)
- (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- Our English dames are much given to the wearing of very fine and costly laces.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
- (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. Wp
- A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
- Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his las.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)
- (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
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Synonyms
- (cord):
- (for a shoe): shoelace
- (for a garment): tie
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English lacen, lasen, from Old French lacer, lacier, lasser, lachier, from the noun (see above).
Verb
lace (third-person singular simple present laces, present participle lacing, simple past and past participle laced)
- (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
- When Jenny's stays are newly laced.
- (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- (transitive) To interweave items.
- The Gond […] picked up a trail of the Karela, the vine that bears the bitter wild gourd, and laced it to and fro across the temple door.
- (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- ALEC, Acle, Alec, acle, alec, cale
Esperanto
Adverb
lace
- wearily
Related terms
- laca
French
Verb
lace
- first-person singular present indicative of lacer
- third-person singular present indicative of lacer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of lacer
- second-person singular imperative of lacer
Anagrams
- cale, calé
- cela
Latin
Verb
lace
- second-person singular present active imperative of laci?
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la.t?s?/
Noun
lace f
- dative/locative singular of laka
Portuguese
Verb
lace
- first-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of laçar
- first-person singular imperative of laçar
- third-person singular imperative of laçar
Spanish
Verb
lace
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lazar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lazar.
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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
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