Laeca

From contraction of laevica, from Laevus (“agnomen and cognomen”) +‎ -ica (“-ic: forming adjectives”) or directly from laevus (“left; left-handed; clumsy; unlucky”) +‎ -ica.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫae̯.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlɛː.ka]

Laeca m sg (genitive Laecae); first declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Porcia

   Publius Porcius Laeca

    

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Laeca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Laeca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.