Where does “lăptuci” come from?

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

lăptuci (Romanian): to slap

Definitions

  1. to slap

Ancestry of “lăptuci”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Romanianlăptucălettuce
2Latinlactūcalettuce (Lactuca sativa), wolf's milk (Lactuca maritima), and other Lactuca species
3Latinlácmilk
4Proto-Indo-Europeanǵláktsmilk

Words derived from “lăptuci”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵlákts →Every word from Latin lác →Every word from Latin lactūca →