lacteus
From LSJ
ἐκ Χάεος δ' Ἔρεβός τε μέλαινά τε Νὺξ ἐγένοντο... (Hesiod's Theogony 123) → From Chasm, Erebos and black Night came to be...
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
lactĕus: a, um, adj. lac.
I Of milk, milky; full of milk (mostly poet.).
A Lit.: umor, Ov. M. 15, 79: ubera, Verg. G. 2, 525.—
B In partic., milk-drinking, sucking: vernae, Mart. 3, 58, 22: porcus, id. 3, 47, 12.—
II Transf., milk-white, milkcolored, milky: colla, Verg. A. 8, 660: cervix, id. ib. 10, 137: gemma, Mart. 8, 45, 2: circulus, the Gr. γαλαξίας κύκλος, the Milky Way, Cic. Rep. 6, 16, 16; also, via, Ov. M. 1, 168.—
B Illa Livi lactea ubertas, pure, Quint. 10, 1, 32.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
lactĕus,¹³ a, um (lac),
1 de lait, laiteux : Ov. M. 15, 79
