lacteo Latin · revision 33308

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *glg-t-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lacteō''' (present infinitive lactēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stems^(Wiktionary)

+ It is used almost only in the present participle ''lactēns''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lac|-eō|t1=milk]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) the TLL takes it as a back-formation from its present participle.^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lac]] to [[itc-pro|*(g)lagt-]] and [[ine-pro|*glg-t-|t=milk]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|γάλα|tr=gála|t=milk]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero has it of Romulus as a little suckling child gaping at the wolf's teats, ''parvus atque lactens, uberibus lupinis inhians''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to suck milk, to be a suckling: Cicero also has the infant Jupiter suckling and a suckling victim for sacrifice,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Ovid a suckling calf and sucklings in general.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Ovid compares the young spring to a suckling child.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to be full of milk or juice, to be milky or sappy:^(OLD 2012) Virgil has crops swelling milky on the green stalk, Pliny the Elder a milky lettuce, and Palladius young greens full of sap.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Celsus uses the neuter plural ''lactentia'' as a noun, milk foods.^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL notes that ordinary speech tended to avoid the verb.^(TLL) In Church Latin it is to suck, to be a suckling.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of Romulus as a suckling.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of milky crops.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of a suckling calf.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus, ''lactentia'', milk foods.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To suck milk, to be a [[m|en|suckling]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To be full of milk or juice, to be [[m|en|milky]] or [[m|en|sappy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[collacteus]]

+ * [[lactēscō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lac]]

+ * [[lactō]]

+ * [[lacteus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}