Lacteo, lactes, lactêre. Var. To sucke milke.Agna lactens.Ouid.A sucking lambe.Catuli lactentes Ouid.Yong sucking whelpes.Lacteus poreus. Varro. A yong sucking pigge.Porca lactens.Ouid. Vituli lactentes. Ouid.Frumenta lactentia. Virgil. Corne yong, and hauing as it were milke in it.Ficus lactens.Ouid.A figge that hath milke in it.Fruge lactenti tumet coma spicea. Propert.
Lacteus, Vide LAC.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lactĕo, ēre (used almost exclusively in the part. pres.), v. a. [lac]. I.To suck milk, to be a suckling: Romulus parvus atque lactens, uberibus lupinis inhians, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19; so, lactens Juppiter puer, id. Div. 2, 41, 85: vitulus, Ov. M. 2, 624; 10, 227: lactens hostia, Cic. Leg. 2, 12, 29; also absol.: lactentibus rem divinam facere, Liv. 37, 3.— Poet.: viscera lactentia, i. e.
sucking children, sucklings
, Ov. F. 6, 137.—Of the spring: tener et lactens (sc. annus), Ov. M. 15, 201. —II.To contain milk or sap, to be milky, sappy, juicy: verno tempore, cum lactent novella virentia, Pall. 3, 26; cf.: nam sata, vere novo, teneris lactentia sucis, Ov. F. 1, 351: frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent, Verg. G. 1, 315: lactuca lactens, Plin. 20, 7, 26, 67.—Subst.: lactentĭa, ium, n., milk-food, milk-dishes, Cels. 2, 28.