Meaning of lac | Babel Free

Definitions

1. milk
   declension-3, neuter
2. for something sweet, pleasant
   declension-3, neuter
3. milky juice
   declension-3, neuter
4. milk-white color
   declension-3, neuter, poetic

Examples

“Cum lacte nutricis.”

With the nurse's milk.

“In melle sunt linguae sitae vostrae atque orationes, lacteque; corda felle sunt lita, atque acerbo aceto.”

In honey your tongues and speeches are dipped, and in milk; your hearts are smeared with gall and with bitter vinegar. (Plautus)

“Ut mentes ... satiari velut quodam jucundioris disciplinae lacte patiantur.”

That minds may endure being satisfied as by the milk of a more pleasant discipline. (Quintilian)

“Lac herbae.”

Milk of a plant.

“cum lacte veneni.”

with poisonous milk.

“c. 1st century BCE, Anonymous (formerly misattributed to Ovid), Nux Lamina mollis adhuc tenero dum lacte, quod intro est, nec mala sunt ulli nostra futura bono. As their nutshell still remains soft with something tenderly milky inside,”

my future fruits are not good to anyone.

“Forte sub umbrosis nemorosae vallibus Idae candidus, armenti gloria, taurus erat, signatus tenui media inter cornua nigro;”

As fortune had it, in the shadowy valleys of forested Ida, there was a white bull, the glory of its herd, marked by slightly black colour between its horns; the blemish was (only) one, the rest were milk-white.

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