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6-letter words (2 found)

CANULA,LACUNA,

5-letter words (2 found)

CANAL,LAUAN,

4-letter words (10 found)

ALAN,ANAL,AULA,CAUL,CLAN,LANA,LUNA,NALA,ULAN,ULNA,

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AAL,ALA,ALU,ANA,AUA,CAA,CAL,CAN,LAC,LUN,

2-letter words (7 found)

AA,AL,AN,LA,NA,NU,UN,

You can make 31 words from lacuna according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lacuna

lacuna

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna (“a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”). Doublet of lacune and lagoon.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ləˈk(j)uː.nə/
  • Rhymes: -uːnə

Noun

lacuna (plural lacunae or (obsolete) lacunæ or lacunas)

  1. (particularly anatomy) A small opening; a small pit or depression, especially in bone.
    Coordinate term: fovea
    1. (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
  2. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
    1. An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
    2. (figurative) Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
    3. (linguistics, 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
      Hyponyms: accidental gap, lexical gap

Synonyms

  • gap
  • hiatus

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • “lacuna”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “lacuna”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • canula

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lacūna. Compare the inherited doublet laguna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laˈku.na/
  • Rhymes: -una
  • Hyphenation: la‧cù‧na

Noun

lacuna f (plural lacune)

  1. gap
  2. blank (space)
  3. lapse (of memory)

Derived terms

  • cunetta

Further reading

  • lacuna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • alcuna, lucana

Latin

Alternative forms

  • lucūna

Etymology

According to Alfred Ernout and Antoine Meillet, from the feminine substantivation of an unattested adjectival form *lacūnus (pertaining to a lake, cistern), itself from lacus (“a lake, pond; a basin, tank, cistern”) +‎ -nus (see -īnus). For the u-stem-appended -nus adjectival suffix compare opportūnus and importūnus, from portus. For its substantivation, probably from the clipping of the set-phrase "lacuna aqua" (cistern water), compare urīna with the same development.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈkuː.na/, [ɫ̪äˈkuːnä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈku.na/, [läˈkuːnä]

Noun

lacūna f (genitive lacūnae); first declension

  1. (literal, chiefly poetic) a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond
    1. (generally) an opening, cavity, hollow, cleft, chasm
  2. (figurative, rare, Classical Latin) a gap, void, defect, want, loss

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

  • lacūnātūra

Derived terms

  • lacūnar, lacūnarium
  • lacūnārius
  • lacūnō
  • lacūnōsus

Related terms

  • lacūnātūra

Descendants

References

  • “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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lacūna. Compare the inherited lagoa and laguna.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: la‧cu‧na

Noun

lacuna f (plural lacunas)

  1. hiatus (gap in a series)
    Synonym: hiato
  2. blank (space to be filled in)

Related terms

  • lagoa

References

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [laˈkuna]

Noun

lacuna f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lacună

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