lacusta

See also: lãcustã, lăcustă, and Lăcustă

Latin

Modification of Classical locusta (“locust, lobster”), likely influenced by lacertus (“lizard”) or lacus (“lake”).

lacusta f (genitive lacustae); first declension

First-declension noun.

Eastern Romance
- Aromanian: lãcustã
- Romanian: lăcustă
Italo-Dalmatian
- Dalmatian: argust
- Italian: aligusta (obsolete), aragosta
- Sicilian: lagusta
Old French: laöste, laüste, laouste
Old Occitan: langosta
- Catalan: llagosta
- Occitan: langosta
- → Old French: langouste
  - French: langouste (see there for further descendants)
West Iberian
- Asturian: llagosta, llangosta
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
  - Galician: lagosta, langosta
  - Portuguese: lagosta
- Old Spanish: langosta
  - Spanish: lagosta, langosta

Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “locusta (*lacusta)”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 367

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