The corpus record — Latin

labdăcismus

labdăcismus · m

labdacism

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What it meant

labdăcismus — Lewis & Short

labdăcismus, i, m., = labdakismo/s,

I labdacism, a fault in speaking.

I The too frequent use of the letter l (as, sol et luna luce lucebant alba, levi, lactea), Mart. Cap. 5, § 514.—

II An erroneous pronunciation of the letter l, like the Spanish ll, Diom. 448 P.; Isid. Orig. 1, 31, 8.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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