lacteus

== Latin == === Etymology === From lac (“milk”) + -eus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫak.te.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlak.te.us] === Adjective === lacteus (feminine lactea, neuter lacteum); first/second-declension adjective milky (of or pertaining to milk) (poetic) full of milk milk-drinking; suckling Synonym: lactāris milk-white Synonyms: lacteolus, lacticolor Near-synonyms: albus, candidus (figuratively) pure ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lacteus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “lacteus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.