Lacerta, tæ, f. g. vel Lacertus, lacerti, m. g. A liseard: a neuet.Parua lacerta.Ouid.Virides lacertæ, vel lacerti-Horat. Lacertus. Martial. A ctrtaine sish of the sea.Lacertus.Cic.The arme from the elbow to the hande wreast: the brawne and sinewes of the arme.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lăcerta, ae, f., and lăcertus, i, m.I.A lizard: lacerta, Plin. 8, 39, 60, 141; Ov. M. 5, 458; Hor. C. 1, 23, 7; Mart. 14, 172; Juv. 14, 75: lacertus, Verg. E. 2, 9; id. G. 4, 13; Juv. 14, 131; cf. Schol. Juv. 3, 231. —Prov.: unius sese dominum fecisse lacertae, to get a little place of one's own (if only big enough for a lizard), Juv. 3, 231. —II.A sea-fish, otherwise unknown: lacertus, Cic. Att. 2, 6, 1; Plin. 32, 11, 53, 149; Cels. 2, 18; Mart. 10, 48, 11 al.: lacerta, Dig. 33, 9, 3, 3.