lucarne
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French lucarne, from Germanic. See below.
Noun
lucarne (plural lucarnes)
- (architecture) A dormer-window.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lucarne in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- crenula, nuclear, unclear
French
Etymology
From Middle French lucarne, luquarme, from Old French lucanne (“opening in the roof of a house, skylight, loft”), from Frankish *lūkinna (“opening closed by a valve, flap”), from Proto-Germanic *lūkinjō (“aperture, window”), from *lūkaną (“to lock, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Middle Low German lūke (“skylight, window”), Dutch luik (“trap door, shutter”), German Luke (“hatch, hatchway, skylight”). More at lock.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ly.kaʁn/
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Noun
lucarne f (plural lucarnes)
- dormer window
- skylight
- (soccer, colloquial) top corner of the net
Descendants
- → Romanian: lucarnă
Further reading
- “lucarne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- lanceur