lacus

From Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”). Cognate with Ancient Greek λάκκος (lákkos, “cistern, tank, pit”) and Old English lagu (“sea, ocean, flood”). More at lay.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.kus/, [ˈɫa.kʊs]

lacus m (genitive lacūs); fourth declension

1. a lake, pond, basin; reservoir
2. a tank, tub, vat, sink

Fourth declension, dative/ablative plural in -ubus.

• laculātus
• lacūna
• lacusculus

• lacus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lacus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lacus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin