latex

Etymology
Borrowed from, a later use of. Potentially a borrowing from 🇨🇬, reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) or 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) or from a 🇨🇬 language.

Noun

 * 1)  A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid esp. plasma and lymph
 * 2) The milky sap of several trees that coagulates on exposure to air; used to make rubber.
 * 3) An emulsion of rubber in water, used in adhesives and the like.
 * 4)  Natural latex rubber, especially non-vulcanized rubber, such as is used in making latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.

Derived terms

 * latex paint

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: латекс
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Nahuatl: olli
 * Danish: latex, saft
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: laktosuko
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: látex
 * German:, Milchsaft
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: לטקס
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ラテックス
 * Korean: 라텍스
 * Latin: latex
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, мле́чный сок
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 膠乳, 乳膠
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: látex
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
, a later use of.

Noun

 * 1)  milky sap of trees
 * 2) latex emulsion of rubber in water

Etymology
Potentially a borrowing from 🇨🇬, reformed by analogy to other nouns in -ex. The semantic shift, however, from drop of wine to water is difficult to explain and may indicate that both words originated from a separate language. Perhaps from the same root as 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) or 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬) or from a 🇨🇬 language.

Noun

 * 1)  water
 * 2)  liquid, fluid
 * 3)  springs
 * 4)  juice, oil, milk
 * 5)  A clear liquid believed to be a component of a humour or other bodily fluid esp. plasma and lymph
 * 6)  Milky liquid which exudes from a plant when cut and which coagulates on exposure to air.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  (sap)
 * 2)  (latex rubber)