lacca

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English lecture.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laccā̀ f (plural laccōcī, possessed form laccàr̃)

1. lecture

Italian

FWOTD – 25 August 2021

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

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

Noun

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

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

Noun

lacca f (plural lacche)

1. varnish, lacquer

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lacca

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

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/, [ˈɫ̪äkːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlak.ka/, [ˈläkːä]

Noun

lacca f (genitive laccae); first declension

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

Declension

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

• “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.