different between lacerts vs lacertus

English

Noun

lacerts

1. plural of lacert

Anagrams

• Clarets, Scarlet, arclets, cartels, castler, castrel, clarets, crestal, rectals, scarlet

English

Alternative forms

• lacert

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /l??s??.t?s/
• Hyphenation: la?cer?tus

Etymology

From Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), possibly from lacerta (“lizard”). For the semantics, compare muscle from m?sculus (“little mouse”), derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice.

Noun

lacertus (plural lacerti)

1. (anatomy) A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.

References

• lacertus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la?ker.tus/, [??ä?k?rt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la?t??er.tus/, [l??t???rt?us]

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

Noun

lacertus m (genitive lacert?, feminine lacerta); second declension

1. Alternative form of lacerta: a lizard.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly from lacerta (“lizard”), as musculus derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *l?k- (“leg, q.v.”)

Noun

lacertus m (genitive lacert?); second declension

1. (anatomy) The muscular part of the upper arm, including the shoulder, biceps, and triceps.
2. (anatomy) The arm.
3. (anatomy, Late Latin) A muscle.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

Further reading

• lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacertus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• "lacert, n.²", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.