laicus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Hellenic *lāwós

Ancient Greek λᾱός (lāós)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)

Ancient Greek λᾱῐ̈κός (lāĭ̈kós)bor.

Latin lāicus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λᾱῐ̈κός (lāĭ̈kós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫaː.ɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.i.kus]

Adjective

lāicus (feminine lāica, neuter lāicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. lay (of the laity)
2. unconsecrated

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lāicus	lāica	lāicum		lāicī	lāicae	lāica
genitive	lāicī	lāicae	lāicī		lāicōrum	lāicārum	lāicōrum
dative	lāicō	lāicae	lāicō		lāicīs
accusative	lāicum	lāicam	lāicum		lāicōs	lāicās	lāica
ablative	lāicō	lāicā	lāicō		lāicīs
vocative	lāice	lāica	lāicum		lāicī	lāicae	lāica

Descendants

• Catalan: llec, → laic
• → Dutch: leek
• → French: laïc, laïque
• Galician: leigo, → laico
• → Hungarian: laikus
• → Irish: láech
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: làich
  • Romagnol: làic, lêic
• Old Italian: ladico
  • >? Italian: laico
• Old French: lai
  • → English: lay
  • French: lai
• →⇒ Old High German: leigo (“layman”, noun)
  • Middle High German: leige, leie
    • German: Laie
• Portuguese: leigo, → laico
• Provençal: laic
• Old Spanish: lego
  • Spanish: lego
• → Romanian: laic
• → Sicilian: laicu
• → Spanish: laico

References

• “laicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "laicus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “laicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.