lacca

Borrowed from English lecture.

laccā̀ f (plural laccōcī, possessed form laccàr̃)

1. lecture

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

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

lacca f (plural lacche)

1. (archaic) hole, pit
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, lines 16–18, page 107:

     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.

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

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

From Medieval Latin lacca, of Persian origin via Arabic.

lacca f (plural lacche)

1. varnish, lacquer

See the etymology of the main entry.

lacca

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

• calca

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

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

lacca f (genitive laccae); first declension

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

First declension.

• 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