lacca

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Hausa

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English lecture.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /lát͡ʃ.t͡ʃàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [lát.t͡ʃàː]

Noun

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laccā̀ f (plural laccōcī, possessed form laccàr̃)

  1. lecture

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlak.ka/
  • Rhymes: -akka
  • Hyphenation: làc‧ca

Etymology 1

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From Old High German lahhā, lacha from Proto-West Germanic *laku.

Noun

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lacca f (plural lacche)

  1. (archaic) hole, pit
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, page 107, lines 16–18:
      Così scendemmo ne la quarta lacca, ¶ pigliando più de la dolente ripa ¶ che ’l mal de l’universo tutto insacca.
      Thus we descended into the fourth chasm, gaining still farther on the dolesome shore which all the woe of the universe insacks.

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Late Latin lacca (swelling on the shinbone of cattle).

Noun

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lacca f (plural lacche) (archaic or regional, rare)

  1. poplite muscle
    Synonym: poplite
  2. thigh (of a four-legged animal)
    Synonym: coscia
  3. (by extension) (human) buttock
    Synonym: natica

Etymology 3

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From Medieval Latin lacca, of Arabic لَكّ (lakk), from Persian لاک (lâk), from Hindi लाख (lākh), from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā).

Noun

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lacca f (plural lacche)

  1. varnish, lacquer

Etymology 4

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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lacca

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

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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lacca f (genitive laccae); first declension

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

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lacca laccae
Genitive laccae laccārum
Dative laccae laccīs
Accusative laccam laccās
Ablative laccā laccīs
Vocative lacca laccae

References

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