Lactes

Lactes^[1]^[2] sunt eiaculatum spermatum quorundam animalium marinorum masculorum, quod produci solet prope ova feminarum.

De nomine

Eiaculata animalium marinorum pluribus linguis "lactes" nuncupantur: Latine saec. II ineunte "lactes" > Dacoromanice lapţi, Francogallice saec. XVI laicte; cf. Francogallice nostro aevo laitances; lingua Sicula hodierna lattume. Russice молока moloka

De usu cibario

In Indonesia lactes (telur ikan) Channae striatae et Lutjanidarum in caril coquuntur
In Iaponia testes (白子 shirako) gadorum, Lophiidarum, Salmonidarum, Decapodiformium,Tetraodontidarum comeduntur
In Corea lactes (이리 iri) Gadi chalcogrammi et gadorum communium necnon Lophiomi setigeri, etiam Tetraodontidarum Sparidarumque comeduntur
In Romania lactes carpionum (lapți) friguntur
In Russia lactes harengorum (moloka) sale conduntur comedunturque aut solae aut cum ovis
In Sicilia lactes thunninae (lattume) in pastis sparguntur
Apud Britannos lactes gadorum friguntur e butyro, in pane illinuntur

Notae

↑ "murenarum lactes": Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, "Vitellius" cap. 13
↑ Vocabulo singulari "[ostrea] circa initia aestatis multo lacte praegnanti": Plinius, Naturalis historia 32.59

Bibliographia

Lexicographica

"Lac. 3b" in Oxford Latin Dictionary ed. P. G. W. Glare (Oxonii: Clarendon Press, 1968–1982)
"Lactes" in W. Meyer-Lübke, Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Heidelbergiae: Winter, 1911) textus

Scientifica

Cheryl Antony, S. Felix, K. Ravaneswaran, "Studies on the milt quality of Common carp (Cyprinus carpio var communis) and Koi carp (Cyprinus carpio var koi)" in International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies vol. 2 (2014) pp. 30-32
Sean L. Divers, Sheri L. Johnson, P. Mark Lokman, "Sperm quality of artificially matured shortfinned eel is not affected by human chorionic gonadotropin dose and route of administration" in Peer J vol. 10 (2022) no. 13742
Hiromi Ohta et al., "Milt Production in the Japanese Eel Anguilla japonica Induced by Repeated Injections of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin" in Fisheries Science vol. 62 (1996) pp. 44-49
Anne M. Scott et al., "Spermine in semen of male sea lamprey acts as a sex pheromone" in PLOS Biology (9 Iulii 2019)

Gastronomica

1825 : Ioannes Anthelmus Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du goût (Lutetiae, 1826) vol. 2 pp. 253-261

Nexus interni

Ova spongia e thunno

Nexus externi

Chichi Wang, "The Nasty Bits: Cod Milt Season" (10 Augusti 2018) apud Serious Eats
Chichi Wang, "Cod Milt Recipe" (6 Aprilis 2021) apud Serious Eats

[Suetonius-1] "murenarum lactes": Suetonius, De vita Caesarum, "Vitellius" cap. 13

[2] Vocabulo singulari "[ostrea] circa initia aestatis multo lacte praegnanti": Plinius, Naturalis historia 32.59

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