lucarne

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lucarne, from Germanic. See below.

Noun

lucarne (plural lucarnes)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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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)

  1. dormer window
  2. skylight
  3. (soccer, colloquial) top corner of the net

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