An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Lattich

by Friedrich Kluge

Lattich, masculine, ‘lettuce,’ from the equivalent Middle High German lattech, latech, lateche, Old High German lattuh (latohha), borrowed in the Old High German period from Latin lactū̆ca through the intermediate forms lattū̆ca, láttuca; compare Anglo-Saxon leahtric, ‘lactuca’ (compare Attich from Latin acte). — In Huflattich, ‘colt’s foot,’ Lattich represents Latin lapatium (Middle High German huoflęteche, Old High German huoflętihha), or more correctly Middle Latin lapatica (intermediate forms lápatica, láptica, lattica).