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Lacaille

Lacaille proper noun: a surname from French.

Proper noun

Lacaille (countable and uncountable, plural Lacailles)

  1. (countable) A surname from French.
  2. (uncountable) The star catalogue compiled by Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

Forms of Lacaille

pluralLacailles
alternative formlaCaille
alternative formLaCaille
alternative formla Caille
alternative formLa Caille
alternative formde la Caille
alternative formDe La Caille
alternative formDe la Caille
alternative formde La Caille
alternative formdelaCaille
alternative formDeLaCaille
alternative formdeLaCaille
alternative formdeLacaille
alternative formDelacaille
alternative formDelaCaille
alternative formde Lacaille
alternative formde laCaille
alternative formde LaCaille
alternative formCaille

Origin of Lacaille

From French Lacaille.

Questions about Lacaille

What does Lacaille mean?
Lacaille means a surname from French.
What part of speech is Lacaille?
Lacaille is a proper noun.

Words near Lacaille in the dictionary

  1. lac tree
  2. lac trees
  3. Lac-Delage
  4. Lac-Mégantic
  5. Lacadena
  6. Lacaille
  7. Lacan
  8. Lacandon
  9. Lacandons
  10. Lacanian
  11. Lacanianism

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