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laca

Portuguese, noun

laca is spelled L-A-C-A (4 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 48,304th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Laca is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “lake (red colouring agent)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a cedilla, laça is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. With a tilde, lãça is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “resina ou goma resinosa obtida de certas árvores no Oriente”.

What does laca mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininelake (red colouring agent)

  2. 2

    femininelac (resinous substance produced by insects)

  3. 3

    Portugalfemininehair spray

verb

as laça
  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as lãça
  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. resina ou goma resinosa obtida de certas árvores no Oriente 2. verniz base de uma matéria produzida e aplicada, na China e no Japão, na confecção de objetos de valor; qualquer objeto revestido ou feito com esta matéria 3. substância com que se pulveriza o cabelo para o fixar 4. produto utilizado na pintura

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of laca

  • lacas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to laca

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is laca in Portuguese?

laca appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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