# latex
## English
### 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 *latis (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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈleɪtɛks/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈleɪˌtɛks/
* Hyphenation: la‧tex

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* latex paint

#### Further reading

* latex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* ↑ 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
* ↑ 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
* ↑ 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: /la.tɛks/
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

latex m (uncountable)
* latex (milky sap of trees)
* 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 *latis (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.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

latex m (genitive laticis); third declension
* (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) water
* (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) liquid, fluid
* (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic, in the plural) springs
* (Classical Latin, chiefly poetic) juice, oil, milk
* (New Latin, medicine) A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid (esp. plasma and lymph)
* (New Latin, botany) Milky liquid which exudes from a plant when cut and which coagulates on exposure to air.

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### 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.
* ↑ 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
* ↑ 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
* ↑ 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)
* latex

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

latex c
* latex (sap)
* latex (latex rubber)

#### Declension
### References

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