Where does “lăptuceală” come from?

lăptuceală (Romanian) comes from Romanian lăptuci, from Romanian lăptucă, from Latin lactūca, from Latin lác, from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts — milk.

lăptuceală (Romanian): beating

Definitions

  1. beating

Ancestry of “lăptuceală”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianlăptucito slap
2Romanianlăptucălettuce
3Latinlactūcalettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lactuca maritima), and other Lactuca species
4Latinlácmilk
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵláktsmilk
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts →Every word from Latin lác →Every word from Latin lactūca →