lactes

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlak.teːs/, [ˈɫ̪äkt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlak.tes/, [ˈläkt̪es]

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-, *(s)leh₁g-, the same root of Latin langueō and laxus.

lactēs f pl (genitive lactium); third declension

1. (anatomy) The intestines, especially the smaller intestines
2. chitterlings
3. milt

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

lactēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of lactō

• “lactes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lactes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

lactes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of lactar

lactes

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of lactar