lactosus

Latin

Etymology

lac, lact- +‎ -ōsus

Adjective

lactōsus (feminine lactōsa, neuter lactōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. milky, milk-like

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lactōsus	lactōsa	lactōsum		lactōsī	lactōsae	lactōsa
genitive	lactōsī	lactōsae	lactōsī		lactōsōrum	lactōsārum	lactōsōrum
dative	lactōsō	lactōsae	lactōsō		lactōsīs
accusative	lactōsum	lactōsam	lactōsum		lactōsōs	lactōsās	lactōsa
ablative	lactōsō	lactōsā	lactōsō		lactōsīs
vocative	lactōse	lactōsa	lactōsum		lactōsī	lactōsae	lactōsa

Descendants

• Aromanian: lãptos
• Asturian: llechosu
• Catalan: lletós
• French: laiteux
• Galician: leitoso
• Occitan: lachós
• Portuguese: leitoso
• Romanian: lăptos
• Sicilian: lattusu
• Spanish: lechoso

References

• “lactosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lactosus 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)
• lactosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.