lactuca

See also: Lactuca

Latin
lactuca

Etymology

From lac (“milk”) +‎ -ūcus (suffix common to several plant names),[1] in reference to the milky white substance (latex) exuded by cut lettuce stems.

Pronunciation

Noun

lactūca f (genitive lactūcae); first declension

  1. lettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lactuca maritima), and other Lactuca species

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lactūca lactūcae
Genitive lactūcae lactūcārum
Dative lactūcae lactūcīs
Accusative lactūcam lactūcās
Ablative lactūcā lactūcīs
Vocative lactūca lactūcae

Descendants
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: lãptucã
    • Romanian: lăptucă (with lapatica from lapathum and lappa)
  • Dalmatian:
    • -
      • → Proto-Slavic: *loťika (see there for further descendants)
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: laciuga
    • Friulian: latuie
    • Ligurian: leitûga
    • Lombard: laciuga
    • Piedmontese: laitùa
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: lletuga, lletruga, lletua
      Septentrional: lleituga
    • Occitan:
      Auvergnat: laituja
      Gascon: lèituga
      Languedocien: laituga, lachuga
      Limousin: laituja
      Provençal: lachuga
      Vivaro-Alpine: lachua
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: lattuca, làtua, làtia, latuca
  • Borrowings:
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *lahtukā (see there for further descendants)

References
  • “lactuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lactuca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lactuca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “lactuca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lac, -tis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320
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