英语词汇lettuce的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lettuce
词源	lettuce [ME] Lettuce came into English from Old French letues or laitues, from Latin lactuca, whose root was lac ‘milk’—the connection was the milky juice that lettuce produces. Latin lac also gave us lactic [L18th], ‘relating to milk’.
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