lactaire
French, noun/lak.tɛʁ/
lactaire is spelled L-A-C-T-A-I-R-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written French, the 202,924th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lactaire is a French masculine noun meaning “milk-cap (mushroom)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de champignons assez grands, à lames plus ou moins décurrentes, au chapeau souvent déprimé ou en…”.
What does lactaire mean in English?
adjective
- 1
milk
noun
- 1
masculinemilk-cap (mushroom)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a rapport au lait, à l'allaitement. 2. Colonne lactaire : Colonne au pied de laquelle, à Rome pendant la période antique, les nouveaux-nés étaient exposés, ou parfois abandonnés.
noun: 1. Genre de champignons assez grands, à lames plus ou moins décurrentes, au chapeau souvent déprimé ou en entonnoir, et au pied sans anneau, cylindrique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lactaire
- lactaires plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lactaire?
- /lak.tɛʁ/
- \lak.tɛʁ\
- [lak.tɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is lactaire in French?
lactaire appears about once in every 41 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).