Etymology

lacmus

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Today it means: Litmus, orchil. Full definition →

Dutch lakmoes
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  1. Dutch · derived fromlakmoes
  2. English todaylacmus

From Dutch lakmoes, from lak (“lac”) + moes (“pulp”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.