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==Etymology== The term ''lake'' is derived from the term [[Lac (resin)|''lac'']], the secretions of the Indian wood insect ''[[Kerria lacca]]'' (formerly ''Laccifer lacca'' or ''Coccus lacca'').<ref name="Stainsfile - How Stains Work">{{Cite news |url=//stainsfile.info/StainsFile/theory/mordant.htm |title=Stain Theory β How mordants work |last=Llewellyn |first=Bryan D. |date=May 2005 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814015208/http://stainsfile.info/StainsFile/theory/mordant.htm |archivedate=August 14, 2007 }}</ref><ref>"lake, n.6". OED Online. December 2011. Oxford University Press. 25 January 2012.</ref> It has the same root as the word ''[[lacquer]]'', and comes originally from the Hindi word {{Lang|hi-latn|lakh}}, through the Arabic word {{Lang|ar-latn|lakk}} and the Persian word {{Lang|fa-latn|lak}}.<ref>''Webster's New World Dictionary of American English'', Third College Edition, 1988.</ref>
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