lacer

From lace +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪs.ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)
• Homophone: laser (Etymology 2)

lacer (plural lacers)

1. A person or thing that laces.

• Carle, 'clare, Clare, Clear, Caler, Carel, carle, recal, clear

See lacs

• IPA^(key): /la.se/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland):

  (file)

• Homophone: lasser

lacer

1. to lace, to lace up

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

• lacs
• lacet

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

• caler, racle, raclé

From Proto-Italic *lakeros, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂k- (“to tear, rend”). Cognate with lancinō, Ancient Greek λᾰκίς (lăkís, “rending, tatters”), Proto-Slavic *laxъ (“rags”) (whence Polish łach (“id”)).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.kɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.t͡ʃer]

lacer (feminine lacera, neuter lacerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. lacerated, mangled, torn to pieces

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• lacerō

• Italian: lacero

• “lacer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lacer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

lacer

1. alternative form of lacier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.