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Probably from Proto-Indo-European *lat- (“wet, damp; swamp”) or Pre-Greek through an intermediary source such as Illyrian. Compare Albanian lag from Proto-Albanian *lauga. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lá.taks/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈla.taks/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.taks/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈla.taks/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈla.taks/

λᾰ́τᾰξ • (lắtăx) f (genitive λᾰ́τᾰγος); third declension

(usually in the plural) the drops of wine in the bottom of the cup which were thrown into a basin with a splash
a water-quadruped, perhaps beaver

→? Latin: latex (see there for further descendants)

κότταβος (kóttabos)

“λάταξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
λάταξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette