lactis

From Classical lac n, reformed based on the oblique stem lact-. The accusative lactem is attested as early as Petronius (where it is a satirized 'vulgar' form), and the nominative lactis is found in late antiquity.[1]

• (Proto-Romance) IPA^(key): /ˈlaktɪs/

lactis m or f (genitive lactis); third declension (Late Latin)

1. milk

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: lapti, lapte
  • Romanian: lapte
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: latte
  • Neapolitan: latte
  • Sicilian: latti
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: latte, latti
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Old Ligurian: laite
      • Ligurian: læte
    • Old Lombard: lag
      • Lombard: lait
    • Old Piedmontese: lait, lag
      • Piedmontese: làit, lacc
  • Friulian: lat
  • Romansch: latg, lat
  • Venetian: lat, late
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: llet
  • Franco-Provençal: lat
  • Old French: lait (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: lach, lait
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: lei
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: lleche
    • Extremaduran: lechi
    • Leonese: lleite, lleche, lleiche
    • Mirandese: lheite
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: leite
    • Galician: leite
    • Portuguese: leite
      • Kabuverdianu: leti
  • Old Spanish: leche
    • Ladino: leche
    • Spanish: leche
      • → Papiamentu: lechi
      • → Cebuano: leche
• Borrowings:
  • → Old Irish: lacht (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *llaɨθ (see there for further descendants)

lactis

1. genitive singular of lac

• “lactis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lactis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lactis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette