different between milky vs lac

English

Etymology

From Middle English mylky, melky, equivalent to milk +? -y. Cognate with German milchig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”). Doublet of milchig.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?lki/
• Rhymes: -?lki

Adjective

milky (comparative milkier, superlative milkiest)

1. Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
   • 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintott, Book 16, line 780, p. 267,^[1]

     The Pails high-foaming with a milky Flood,

   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51,^[2]

     […] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of peculiar Tastes and Qualities.

   • 1928, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Book One, Chapter Three, 3,^[3]

     […] the kind, slightly milky odour of cattle […]

   • 1980, J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, 1999, Chapter 2, pp. 37-38,

     She wheels her gaze from the wall on to me. The black irises are set off by milky whites as clear as a child’s.

2. (color science, informal) Of the black in an image, appearing as dark gray rather than black.
3. (of a drink) Containing (an especially large amount of) milk.

   milky tea; milky cocoa

   • 1959, Muriel Spark, Memento Mori, New York: New Directions, 2000, Chapter One, p. 13,^[4]

     Mrs. Anthony, their daily housekeeper, brought in the milky coffee and placed it on the breakfast table.

   • 1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, New York: Norton, 1986, Chapter 5,

     […] we sat down […] to the old crack crack crack of eggs and the crackle crunch crunch of this black toast, very milky chai standing by in bolshy great morning mugs.

4. (of grains) Containing a whitish liquid, juicy.
   • 1800, Robert Bloomfield, The Farmer’s Boy, London: Vernor & Hood et al., “Summer,” p. 30,^[5]

     Shot up from broad rank blades that droop below,

     The nodding WHEAT-EAR forms a graceful bow,

     With milky kernels starting full, weigh’d down,

     Ere yet the sun hath ting’d its head with brown;

   • 1914, Robert W. Chambers, The Hidden Children, New York: Appleton, Chapter 19, p. 575,^[6]

     […] the servile Eries were staggering out of the corn fields laden with ripe ears; and the famished soldiers were shouting and cursing at them and tearing the corn from their arms to gnaw the raw and milky grains.

   • 1981, Martin Morolong, “The Old-Style Calendar” in Bessie Head, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind, London: Heinemann,

     The birds perch on the sorghum heads and try to eat them but the dry seed falls to the ground. The birds can only peck it out of the sorghum head when it is still milky and green.

5. (colloquial) Cowardly.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, Act III, Scene 1,^[7]

     Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?

   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, Vintage, 2002, Part , Chapter , pp. 45-46,^[8]

     ‘Who said there was going to be any killing?’ The lightning flared up and showed his tight shabby jacket, the bunch of soft hair at the nape. ‘I’ve got a date, that’s all. You be careful what you say, Spicer. You aren’t milky, are you?’

     ‘I’m not milky. You got me wrong, Pinkie. I just don’t want another killing […] ’

6. (colloquial) Immature, childish.
   • 1651, William Davenant, Gondibert, London: John Holden, Book 2, Canto 3, Stanza 48, p. 101,^[9]

     Gone is your fighting Youth, whom you have bred

     From milkie Childhood to the years of bloud!

   • 1851, Charles Kingsley, Yeast, London: John W. Parker, Chapter 1, p. 15,^[10]

     There were the everlasting hills around, even as they had grown for countless ages, beneath the still depths of the primeval chalk ocean, in the milky youth of this great English land.

   • 1882, Walter Besant, The Revolt of Man, London: Blackwood, Chapter 2, p. 45,^[11]

     “I am no milky, modest, obedient youth, Constance. […] ”

   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: Harcourt Brace, Chapter 29, III, p. 337,^[12]

     He got so thoroughly into the jocund spirit that he didn’t much mind seeing Tanis drooping against the shoulder of the youngest and milkiest of the young men […]

7. (obsolete) Producing milk, lactating.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book One, Canto 8, p. 107,^[13]

     As great a noyse, as when in Cymbrian plaine

     An heard of Bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting,

     Doe for the milky mothers want complaine,

     And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing,

   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “A Country Life” in Hesperides, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, p. 37,^[14]

     […] ye heare the Lamb by many a bleat

     Woo’d to come suck the milkie Teat:

Synonyms

• (resembling milk): lacteous; see also Thesaurus:lacteous
• (containing milk): lactiferous
• (cowardly): fearful, nithing; see also Thesaurus:cowardly
• (immature): infantile, puerile; see also Thesaurus:childish
• (producing milk): lactifluous, nursing, with milk

Derived terms

Translations

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