What does lacerta mean in Latin?

lacerta, a noun, means “lizard; mackerel-like sea fish, horse mackerel”.

What is the genitive of lacerta?

The genitive singular is lacertae. lacerta is feminine, first declension.

In classical Latin, [ɫaˈkɛr.ta]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [laˈt͡ʃɛr.ta].

noun · femininefirst declension

lacerta f (genitive lacertae)

Classical[ɫaˈkɛr.ta]Ecclesiastical[laˈt͡ʃɛr.ta]

parvum animal quadrupēs (at lacertus: bracchium!)

lacerta -ae (f) — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 11

lăcerta, ae, f., and lăcertus, i, m.

I. A lizard: lacerta, Plin. 8, 39, 60, § 141; Ov. M. 5, 458; Hor. C. 1, 23, 7; Mart. 14, 172; Juv. 14, 75: lacertus, Verg. E. 2, 9; id. G. 4, 13; Juv. 14, 131; cf. Schol. Juv. 3, 231. —Prov.: unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae, to get a little place of one's own (if only big enough for a lizard), Juv. 3, 231. —

II. A sea-fish, otherwise unknown: lacertus, Cic. Att. 2, 6, 1; Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 149; Cels. 2, 18; Mart. 10, 48, 11 al.: lacerta, Dig. 33, 9, 3, § 3.

Unknown. Perhaps connected to Ancient Greek λικερτίζειν (likertízein, “to spring, dance”) or to Latin lacertum (“upper arm”).

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