lucarne
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French lucarne, from Germanic. See below.
Noun
editlucarne (plural lucarnes)
- (architecture) A dormer-window.
- (architecture) A window or opening in an industrial building that supports a hoist above doors on a lower floor.
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editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French lucarne, luquarme, from Old French lucanne (“opening in the roof of a house, skylight, loft”), from Frankish *lūkinnjā (“opening closed by a valve, flap”), a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *lūkā (“hatch, window”), from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną (“to lock, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Middle Low German lûke (“skylight, window”), Dutch luik (“trap door, shutter”), German Luke (“hatch, hatchway, skylight”). More at lock.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlucarne f (plural lucarnes)
- dormer window
- skylight
- (soccer, colloquial) top corner of the net
Descendants
edit- → Romanian: lucarnă
Further reading
edit- “lucarne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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