Lettuce

Morpheme

Lettuce

Type

free base

Denotation

leafy green vegetable grown for salad

Etymology

Middle English letuse, letus, letys, letuce, letuze, letes, letows, letyse; probably from Old French laitues; Latin lactūca, from lact- + -ūcus, from lac

Evidence

lettuce, lettuceless, lettucelike, lettuces, lettucey

See Also

Lact, -uce