labdacismus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

labdăcismus, i, m., = λαβδακισμός, labdacism, a fault in speaking.

I The too frequent use of the letter l (as, sol et luna luce lucebant alba, levi, lactea), Mart. Cap. 5, § 514.—

II An erroneous pronunciation of the letter l , like the Spanish ll, Diom. 448 P.; Isid. Orig. 1, 31, 8.