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See also: Appendix:Variations of "lac"

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Portuguese laca, from Hindi लाख (lākh)/Urdu لاکھ (lākh) or cognates in other Indo-Aryan languages, from Sanskrit लाक्षा (lākṣā). Doublet of lacquer.

Noun

lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)

  1. A resinous substance or lacquer produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Kerria lacca, a scale insect.
    • 2019 November 5, Alice Bell, “Can science break its plastic addiction?”, in CNN‎:
      At the turn of the century, the ever-expanding electrical industry was running low on shellac, a resin secreted by the female lac bug which could be used as an insulating material.
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Etymology 2

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

  1. Dated spelling of lakh.
    • 1804, R[obert] Montgomery Martin, quoting Yashwantrao Holkar, “Section II. European Intercourse—Rise and Growth of British Power.”, in The Indian Empire: […], volume I (History, Topography, Population, Government, Finance, Commerce, and Staple Products), London; New York, N.Y.: The London Printing and Publishing Company, published [1858], →OCLC, page 399, column 2:
      […] Lake [i.e., Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake] should not have leisure to breathe for a moment, and calamities would fall on lacs of human beings in continued war by the attacks of his army, which would overwhelm like the waves of the sea.
    • 1878 August, “Contemporary Portraits. New Series.—No. 8. Charles Darwin, F.R.S.”, in The University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, volume II, London: Hurst & Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 154:
      The Laccadives and Maldives, for instance, meaning literally the "lac of islands" and the "thousand islands," are a series of such atolls; […]

Etymology 3

From Cadillac.

Noun

lac (plural lacs)

  1. (slang) Clipping of Cadillac
    Synonyms: caddie, caddy
    Last night I was driving around in my lac.
    • 1992, Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin, Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
      Macs drive lacs.
    • 2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:
      The candy gloss is immaculate, it's simply amazing / Them elbows poking wide on that candy ’Lac

Etymology 4

From laceration.

Pronunciation

Noun

lac (countable and uncountable, plural lacs)

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Laceration.
    hand lac

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lac

  1. lake

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Noun

lac m

  1. lake

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Noun

lac (ORB, broad)

  1. alternative form of lèc (“lake”)

References

  • lac in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

French

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle French lac, from Old French lac, a replacement of earlier lai (“pit, trench, ditch, grave, mere, pond”) (see Old French lac). Generally inferred as a borrowing of Latin lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Italic *lakus, from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).

Pronunciation

Noun

lac m (plural lacs)

  1. lake

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K'iche'

Noun

lac

  1. (Classical K'iche') plate

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Romanian

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Zazaki

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