Etymograph

English

lactic

Lactic comes from Latin lactis ‘of milk’, and goes back to lac.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElac‘milk’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElactis‘of milk’genitive form of lac
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2001lactic

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElac‘milk’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CElactis‘of milk’genitive form of lac
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2001lactic

Earliest quotation: 2001, Jonathan Franzen: “In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters,…”

Linked words

through Latin lac ‘milk’

lettuce, latte, lactose, lactate, spironolactone, 9 more

Today it means

adj Of, relating to, or derived from milk.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin lac / lactic

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