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lacerta (plural lacertas)
Unknown. Perhaps connected to Ancient Greek λικερτίζειν (likertízein, “to spring, dance”) or to Latin lacertum (“upper arm”).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /laˈker.ta/, [ɫ̪äˈkɛrt̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈt͡ʃer.ta/, [läˈt͡ʃɛrt̪ä]
lacerta f (genitive lacertae); first declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lacerta | lacertae |
| Genitive | lacertae | lacertārum |
| Dative | lacertae | lacertīs |
| Accusative | lacertam | lacertās |
| Ablative | lacertā | lacertīs |
| Vocative | lacerta | lacertae |
- From lacerta:
- Asturian: llacierta
- Franco-Provençal: lenzèrda
- Friulian: lisierte
- Gascon: lusèrt, lusèrp, lausèrt, lausèrp, lasèrp, ladèrt, ludèrt, lisèrp
- Lombard: lüserta
- Neapolitan: lacerta
- Norman: lêzarde (Jersey)
- Old French: laisarde
- Occitan:
- Piedmontese: laserta, laserda, lasarda, luserta
- Sicilian: lucerta
- Venetian: luxèrta, uxèrta, lisarda, rixarda
- from *lacertula:
- From the masculine variant lacertus:
- Vulgar Latin: *lacartum
- from *lacarta:
- Asturian: llagarta, llagartesa
- Portuguese: lagarta
- >? Dalmatian: lačas m, lačar f
- >? Sardinian: lugesti, lucesti, lugestra, luxeta, calaxerta, caluxerta
- borrowings:
- Translingual: Lacerta, Lacertidae, Lacertilia
- Esperanto: lacerto
- Irish: laghairt
- Scottish Gaelic: laghairt/f
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacerta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacerta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
lacerta
- Alternative form of lesarde