laic

• laick (obsolete)

From French laïque, from Latin laĭcus (“common people”), from Ancient Greek λαός (laós). Doublet of lay.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.ɪk/

  Rhymes: -eɪɪk

laic (plural laics)

1. A layperson, as opposed to a member of the clergy.

• lay
• layman
• layperson
• laywoman
• laical
• laity

laic (comparative more laic, superlative most laic)

1. Lay, relating to laypersons, as opposed to clerical.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

     And in conclusion it reflects to the disrepute of our ministers ... [that] they should still be frequented with such an unprincipled, unedified and laic rabble, as that the whiff of every new pamphlet should stagger them out of their catechism and Christian walking.

• -ical, Alic, Cail, Cali, Laci

Learned borrowing from Latin laicus, from Ancient Greek λαός (laós). Doublet of llec.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈlajk]

laic (feminine laica, masculine plural laics, feminine plural laiques)

1. laic, secular

laic m (plural laics, feminine laica)

1. layperson

• “laic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “laic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “laic” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “laic” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-rajH (“sharp”). Cognate with White Hmong zuag.

laic 

1. sharp

Borrowed from French laïque, from Latin laicus.

laic m or n (feminine singular laică, masculine plural laici, feminine and neuter plural laice)

1. secular