latex

See also: LaTeX, Latex, and látex

English

Latex being extracted from a tree

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin latex (“clear fluid which is part of a humour or bodily fluid”), a later use of Latin latex (“water; liquid, fluid”). Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (lắtăx, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *lati- (Old Irish laith (“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad (“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō- (Old High German letto (“clay, loam”), Old Norse leðja (“mud, dregs”)) or from a Pre-Greek language.^[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪtɛks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪˌtɛks/
• Hyphenation: la‧tex

Noun

latex (countable and uncountable, plural latices or latexes)

1. (medicine, archaic, rare) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph).
2. The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
3. An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.
4. (uncountable) Natural latex rubber, especially nonvulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.

Derived terms

• latex paint

Translations

milky sap

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: լատեքս (hy) (latekʻs) Bulgarian: латекс m (lateks) Catalan: làtex (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 橡漿 / 橡浆 (zh) (xiàngjiāng) Classical Nahuatl: olli Danish: latex c, saft c Dutch: latex (nl) Esperanto: laktosuko Finnish: lateksi (fi), maitiaisneste (fi) French: latex (fr) m Galician: látex m German: Latex (de) m, Milchsaft m Greek: κόμμι (el) n (kómmi) Hawaiian: kohu, kaikea Hebrew: לטקס m (láteks) Hungarian: latex (hu), tejnedv (hu) Indonesian: getah (id), lateks (id) Italian: latice (it) m, lattice (it) m Japanese: 乳液 (ja) (にゅうえき, nyūeki), 乳汁 (ja) (にゅうじゅう, nyūjū), ラテックス (ratekkusu) Korean: 라텍스 (ratekseu) Latin: latex Malay: getah (ms) Maori: tawau Polish: lateks (pl) m Portuguese: látex (pt) m Romanian: latex (ro) n Russian: ла́текс (ru) m (látɛks), мле́чный сок m (mléčnyj sok) Spanish: látex (es) m Swedish: latex (sv) Turkish: lateks (tr), öz su (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

emulsion

Catalan: làtex (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 膠乳 / 胶乳 (gaau1 jyu5), 乳膠 / 乳胶 (jyu5 gaau1) Mandarin: 膠乳 / 胶乳 (zh) (jiāorǔ), 乳膠 / 乳胶 (zh) (rǔjiāo) Finnish: lateksi (fi) Galician: látex m German: Latex (de) m Hungarian: latex (hu) Polish: lateks (pl) m Portuguese: látex (pt) m Russian: ла́текс (ru) m (látɛks) Spanish: látex (es) m Swedish: latex (sv) c or n Turkish: lateks (tr)

Further reading

• latex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “latex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 329
2. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λάταξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 837
3. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “latex”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

• “latex, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2015.

Anagrams

• -taxel, exalt, taxel

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin latex (“clear fluid which is part of a humour or bodily fluid”), a later use of Latin latex (“water; liquid, fluid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.tɛks/

• Audio (Canada):

  (file)

Noun

latex m (uncountable)

1. latex (milky sap of trees)
2. latex (emulsion of rubber in water)

Derived terms

• pas de latex, pas de sexe
• pas de sexe sans latex

Further reading

• “latex”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Potentially a borrowing from Ancient Greek λᾰ́τᾰξ (lắtăx, “drop of wine”), reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as Proto-Celtic *lati- (Old Irish laith (“liquid, beer”), Welsh llad (“beer”)) or Proto-Germanic *ladjō- (Old High German letto (“clay, loam”), Old Norse leðja (“mud, dregs”)) or from a Pre-Greek language.^[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈla.teks/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪ɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.teks/, [ˈläːt̪eks]

Noun

latex m (genitive laticis); third declension

1. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) water
2. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) liquid, fluid
3. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic, in the plural) springs
4. (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) juice, oil, milk
5. (New Latin, medicine) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
6. (New Latin, botany) Milky liquid which exudes from a plant when cut and which coagulates on exposure to air.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	latex	laticēs
genitive	laticis	laticum
dative	laticī	laticibus
accusative	laticem	laticēs
ablative	latice	laticibus
vocative	latex	laticēs

Descendants

• → English: latex
• → Armenian: լատեքս (latekʻs)
• → Catalan: làtex
• → Danish: latex
• → Dutch: latex
• → Esperanto: laktosuko
• → Finnish: lateksi
• → French: latex
• → Galician: látex
• → German: Latex
• → Ido: latexo
• → Italian: latice, lattice
• → Japanese: ラテックス (ratekkusu)
• → Polish: lateks
• → Portuguese: látice, látex
• → Romanian: latex
• → Russian: ла́текс (láteks)
• → Spanish: látex
• → Swedish: latex

References

• “latex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “latex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "latex", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• latex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “latex, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2015.

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “latex”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 329
2. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λάταξ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 837
3. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “latex”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French latex.

Noun

latex n (plural latexuri)

1. latex

Declension

Declension of latex

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	latex	latexul		latexuri	latexurile
genitive-dative	latex	latexului		latexuri	latexurilor
vocative	latexule			latexurilor

Swedish

Noun

latex c

1. latex (sap)
2. latex (latex rubber)

Declension

Declension of latex

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	latex	latexs
	definite	latexen	latexens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

References

• latex in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• latex in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)