lactic

Of, relating to, or derived from milk.

Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or derived from milk.
  2. Relating to, or producing, lactic acid.
    • lactic fermentation
    • In the morning the blood was crowded with commuters, the glucose peons, lactic and ureic sanitation workers, hemoglobinous deliverymen carrying loads of freshly brewed oxygen in their dented vans, […] - 2001, Jonathan...

Origin

From Latin lactis (“of milk”), genitive form of lac (“milk”), with the suffix -ic.

Related

lactate lactation

Derived

acetolactic alactic heterolactic homolactic lactic acid lactic acidosis lacticaemia lactimide lactyl lactylate lactylic paralactic acid polylactic sarcolactic acid