lacticinium

Latin

Etymology

From lac, lactis (“milk”).

Noun

lacticīnium n (genitive lacticīniī or lacticīnī); second declension

1. milk-food, dairy product

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lacticīnium	lacticīnia
genitive	lacticīniī lacticīnī1	lacticīniōrum
dative	lacticīniō	lacticīniīs
accusative	lacticīnium	lacticīnia
ablative	lacticīniō	lacticīniīs
vocative	lacticīnium	lacticīnia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Catalan: lacticini
• → Italian: latticino
• → Portuguese: laticínio
• Old Spanish: lechezinos
• → Spanish: lacticinio

References

• “lacticinium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press