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{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lacūnar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lacūnarium"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lacūnārius"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lacūnō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lacūnōsus"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
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"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ast",
"2": "llaguna"
},
"expansion": "Asturian: llaguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Asturian: llaguna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "llacuna"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: llacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: llacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lacuna",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: lacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: lacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "lacune",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: lacune\n→ English: lacune\n→ Romanian: lacună",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ French: lacune\n→ English: lacune\n→ Romanian: lacună"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "lagoa"
},
"expansion": "Galician: lagoa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: lagoa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "laguna"
},
"expansion": "Italian: laguna\n→ French: lagune\n→ Danish: lagune\n→ Dutch: lagune\n→ English: lagoon\n→ Portuguese: laguna\n→ Romanian: lagună",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Italian: laguna\n→ French: lagune\n→ Danish: lagune\n→ Dutch: lagune\n→ English: lagoon\n→ Portuguese: laguna\n→ Romanian: lagună"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "lacuna",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: lacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: lacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "lòna",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Occitan: lòna, lagua, laguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Occitan: lòna, lagua, laguna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "lagoa"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: lagoa",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "lacuna",
"bor": "1",
"nolb": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ lacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: lagoa, → lacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "лакуна",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: лакуна (lakuna)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: лакуна (lakuna)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "laguna"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: laguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: laguna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vec",
"2": "łaguna"
},
"expansion": "Venetian: łaguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Venetian: łaguna"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "-īnus"
},
"expansion": "-īnus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "lacus",
"3": "-nus",
"pos2": "see <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">-īnus</i>",
"t1": "a lake, pond; a basin, tank, cistern"
},
"expansion": "lacus (“a lake, pond; a basin, tank, cistern”) + -nus (see -īnus)",
"name": "affix"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "opportūnus"
},
"expansion": "opportūnus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "importūnus"
},
"expansion": "importūnus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "portus"
},
"expansion": "portus",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "urīna"
},
"expansion": "urīna",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
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{
"form": "lacūna",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūna",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnārum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnam",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnās",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnā",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūna",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
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},
"expansion": "lacūna f (genitive lacūnae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lacūna<1>"
},
"name": "la-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lacūnātūra"
}
],
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…], whence the great hollows (the cavity of the torrent) sweat of a tepid moisture.",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.117",
"text": "[…], unde cavae tepido sudant umore lacunae."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond"
],
"id": "en-lacuna-la-noun-VgLIGujQ",
"links": [
[
"poetic",
"poetic"
],
[
"hole",
"hole"
],
[
"pit",
"pit"
],
[
"ditch",
"ditch"
],
[
"pool",
"pool"
],
[
"pond",
"pond"
]
],
"qualifier": "literal",
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"(literal, chiefly poetic) a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…], in such a way that they bear no holes nor protruding parts, […]",
"ref": "c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 7.1.4",
"text": "[…], ut ne habeant lacunas nec extantes tumulos, […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond",
"an opening, cavity, hollow, cleft, chasm"
],
"id": "en-lacuna-la-noun-kofixH2n",
"links": [
[
"poetic",
"poetic"
],
[
"hole",
"hole"
],
[
"pit",
"pit"
],
[
"ditch",
"ditch"
],
[
"pool",
"pool"
],
[
"pond",
"pond"
],
[
"opening",
"opening"
],
[
"cavity",
"cavity"
],
[
"hollow",
"hollow"
],
[
"cleft",
"cleft"
],
[
"chasm",
"chasm"
]
],
"qualifier": "literal; generally; generally",
"raw_glosses": [
"(literal, chiefly poetic) a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond",
"(generally) an opening, cavity, hollow, cleft, chasm"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Classical Latin",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "10 33 57",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 30 60",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 33 44",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "14 23 63",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin terms suffixed with -nus",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…] and this unimportant fault, a simple defect of good reputation is repaid (made firm again) by the excuse of new-found circumstances to help a friend.",
"ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.3.23",
"text": "[…], minimaque illa labes et quasi lacuna famae munimentis partarum amico utilitatium solidatur."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a gap, void, defect, want, loss"
],
"id": "en-lacuna-la-noun-TvOQdDDd",
"links": [
[
"gap",
"gap"
],
[
"void",
"void"
],
[
"defect",
"defect"
],
[
"want",
"want"
],
[
"loss",
"loss"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, rare, Classical Latin) a gap, void, defect, want, loss"
],
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin",
"declension-1",
"figuratively",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/laˈkuː.na/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ɫ̪äˈkuːnä]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/laˈku.na/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[läˈkuːnä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lacūnātūra"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "lucūna"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Alfred Ernout",
"Antoine Meillet",
"fr:Jacques André"
],
"word": "lacuna"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 3-syllable words",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms suffixed with -nus",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "lacūnar"
},
{
"word": "lacūnarium"
},
{
"word": "lacūnārius"
},
{
"word": "lacūnō"
},
{
"word": "lacūnōsus"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ast",
"2": "llaguna"
},
"expansion": "Asturian: llaguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Asturian: llaguna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "llacuna"
},
"expansion": "Catalan: llacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Catalan: llacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lacuna",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: lacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: lacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "lacune",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ French: lacune\n→ English: lacune\n→ Romanian: lacună",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ French: lacune\n→ English: lacune\n→ Romanian: lacună"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "gl",
"2": "lagoa"
},
"expansion": "Galician: lagoa",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Galician: lagoa"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "laguna"
},
"expansion": "Italian: laguna\n→ French: lagune\n→ Danish: lagune\n→ Dutch: lagune\n→ English: lagoon\n→ Portuguese: laguna\n→ Romanian: lagună",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "Italian: laguna\n→ French: lagune\n→ Danish: lagune\n→ Dutch: lagune\n→ English: lagoon\n→ Portuguese: laguna\n→ Romanian: lagună"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "lacuna",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: lacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: lacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "oc",
"2": "lòna",
"alts": "1"
},
"expansion": "Occitan: lòna, lagua, laguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Occitan: lòna, lagua, laguna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "lagoa"
},
"expansion": "Portuguese: lagoa",
"name": "desc"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "lacuna",
"bor": "1",
"nolb": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ lacuna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Portuguese: lagoa, → lacuna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "лакуна",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: лакуна (lakuna)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: лакуна (lakuna)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "laguna"
},
"expansion": "Spanish: laguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Spanish: laguna"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "vec",
"2": "łaguna"
},
"expansion": "Venetian: łaguna",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "Venetian: łaguna"
}
],
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"1": "la",
"2": "-īnus"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "lacus",
"3": "-nus",
"pos2": "see <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">-īnus</i>",
"t1": "a lake, pond; a basin, tank, cistern"
},
"expansion": "lacus (“a lake, pond; a basin, tank, cistern”) + -nus (see -īnus)",
"name": "affix"
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{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "opportūnus"
},
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"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "importūnus"
},
"expansion": "importūnus",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"1": "la",
"2": "portus"
},
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},
{
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"1": "la",
"2": "urīna"
},
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"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lacūna",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-ndecl",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūna",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnārum",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnam",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnās",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnā",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnīs",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūna",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "lacūnae",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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},
"expansion": "lacūna f (genitive lacūnae); first declension",
"name": "la-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "lacūna<1>"
},
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],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "lacūnātūra"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin poetic terms",
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…], whence the great hollows (the cavity of the torrent) sweat of a tepid moisture.",
"ref": "c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.117",
"text": "[…], unde cavae tepido sudant umore lacunae."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond"
],
"links": [
[
"poetic",
"poetic"
],
[
"hole",
"hole"
],
[
"pit",
"pit"
],
[
"ditch",
"ditch"
],
[
"pool",
"pool"
],
[
"pond",
"pond"
]
],
"qualifier": "literal",
"raw_glosses": [
"(literal, chiefly poetic) a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin poetic terms",
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…], in such a way that they bear no holes nor protruding parts, […]",
"ref": "c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 7.1.4",
"text": "[…], ut ne habeant lacunas nec extantes tumulos, […]"
}
],
"glosses": [
"a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond",
"an opening, cavity, hollow, cleft, chasm"
],
"links": [
[
"poetic",
"poetic"
],
[
"hole",
"hole"
],
[
"pit",
"pit"
],
[
"ditch",
"ditch"
],
[
"pool",
"pool"
],
[
"pond",
"pond"
],
[
"opening",
"opening"
],
[
"cavity",
"cavity"
],
[
"hollow",
"hollow"
],
[
"cleft",
"cleft"
],
[
"chasm",
"chasm"
]
],
"qualifier": "literal; generally; generally",
"raw_glosses": [
"(literal, chiefly poetic) a hole, pit, ditch; (especially) a pool, pond",
"(generally) an opening, cavity, hollow, cleft, chasm"
],
"tags": [
"declension-1",
"poetic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Classical Latin",
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[…] and this unimportant fault, a simple defect of good reputation is repaid (made firm again) by the excuse of new-found circumstances to help a friend.",
"ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.3.23",
"text": "[…], minimaque illa labes et quasi lacuna famae munimentis partarum amico utilitatium solidatur."
}
],
"glosses": [
"a gap, void, defect, want, loss"
],
"links": [
[
"gap",
"gap"
],
[
"void",
"void"
],
[
"defect",
"defect"
],
[
"want",
"want"
],
[
"loss",
"loss"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, rare, Classical Latin) a gap, void, defect, want, loss"
],
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin",
"declension-1",
"figuratively",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/laˈkuː.na/",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ɫ̪äˈkuːnä]",
"tags": [
"Classical"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/laˈku.na/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
},
{
"ipa": "[läˈkuːnä]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lacūnātūra"
},
{
"word": "lucūna"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Alfred Ernout",
"Antoine Meillet",
"fr:Jacques André"
],
"word": "lacuna"
}
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