Hausa

Noun

laccā̀ f ‎(plural laccoci)

1. lecture

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -akka

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin lacca, of Indian origin via Arabic.

Noun

lacca f ‎(plural lacche)

1. varnish, lacquer

Etymology 2

From Late Latin laccum ‎(“ditch, pond”), probably with influence from Old High German lahhā, lacha from Proto-Germanic *lakō.

Noun

lacca f ‎(plural lacche)

1. (archaic) hole, pit
   • Dante, Commedia Inferno.VII.16-18

     Così scendemmo ne la quarta lacca/pigliando più de la dolente ripa/ che 'l mal dell'universo tutto insacca.

     Then we passed downward to the fourth pit/Making distance from the dismal bank/Swallowing all the world's evil in it.

Etymology 3

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

lacca

1. third-person singular present indicative of laccare
2. second-person singular imperative of laccare

Anagrams

• calca

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *Hlak-, *lēk- ‎(“leg; the main muscle of the arm or leg”). Compare English leg and Latin lacertus ‎(“upper arm”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlak.ka/, [ˈɫak.ka]

Noun

lacca f ‎(genitive laccae); first declension

1. A swelling on the shinbone of cattle
2. An unknown kind of plant

Inflection

First declension.

References

• lacca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “lacca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.