lacusta

== Latin == === Etymology === Modification of Classical locusta (“locust, lobster”), likely influenced by lacertus (“lizard”) or lacus (“lake”). === Noun === lacusta f (genitive lacustae); first declension (Late Latin, nonstandard) alternative form of locusta (“locust, lobster”) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Eastern Romance Aromanian: lãcustã Romanian: lăcustă Italo-Dalmatian Dalmatian: argust Italian: aligusta (obsolete), aragosta Sicilian: lagusta Old French: laöste, laüste, laouste Old Occitan: langosta Catalan: llagosta Occitan: langosta → Old French: langousteFrench: langouste (see there for further descendants) West Iberian Asturian: llagosta, llangosta Old Galician-Portuguese: Galician: lagosta, langosta Portuguese: lagosta Old Spanish: langosta Spanish: lagosta, langosta ==== References ==== Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “locusta (*lacusta)”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 367