lactic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey)

   “lactic acid”

   “lactic fermentation”

Other forms of lactic

comparative

lacticer·

superlative

lacticest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lactic

What does lactic mean?

lactic means "of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey)".

How many syllables are in lactic?

lactic has 2 syllables: lac-tic. The stress falls on "lac". In IPA it is /ˈlæktɪk/.

Is lactic a common word?

lactic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lactic?

3 words rhyme with lactic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.