lacuna
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Doublet of lacune and lagoon.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lacuna (plural lacunae or (obsolete) lacunæ or lacunas)
- (particularly anatomy) A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
- (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
- A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World[1]:
- "Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunæ by some measure of primitive common sense," remarked Challenger.
- An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
- Long lacunae in this inscription make interpretation difficult.
- Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
- 2019, Huang, Li; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume 41, number 7, DOI: , page 577:
- If the researcher cannot adequately hear a specific conversation due to its low volume or other acoustic interference, then this data point can be passed over with the understanding that such lacunae will be randomly distributed over the data collecting period.
- (translation studies) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.
- Synonym: anisomorphism
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TranslationsEdit
opening, pit, depression
space between cells
absent part in a book
language gap
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Further readingEdit
- “lacuna”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “lacuna”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin lacūna. Compare the inherited doublet laguna.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lacuna f (plural lacune)
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Further readingEdit
- lacuna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From lacus (“a lake, pond; a basin, tank, cistern”).
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lacūna f (genitive lacūnae); first declension
- (literally, chiefly poetic) a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond
- (figuratively, rare, Classical Latin) a gap, void, defect, want, loss
- c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.3.23:
- […], minimaque illa labes et quasi lacuna famae munimentis partarum amico utilitatium solidatur.
InflectionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lacūna | lacūnae |
Genitive | lacūnae | lacūnārum |
Dative | lacūnae | lacūnīs |
Accusative | lacūnam | lacūnās |
Ablative | lacūnā | lacūnīs |
Vocative | lacūna | lacūnae |
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DescendantsEdit
Descendants of lacūna in other languages
ReferencesEdit
- “lacuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacuna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lacuna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “lacuna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacuna in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna.[1][2] Compare the inherited lagoa and laguna.
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: la‧cu‧na
NounEdit
lacuna f (plural lacunas)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “lacuna” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- ^ “lacuna” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
RomanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lacuna f