lagune French · revision 15716

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1574, Belleforest, lacune|origins=la lacus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /la.ɡyn/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lagune''' ''f'' (plural lagunes)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Lacune'' (1574), ''lagune'' (1701, Furetière).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|vec|laguna|t=coastal lagoon]] (before 1488), a word that first meant “marsh, pond” in Italian (about 1304),^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|5, 125b) from [[la|lacūna|t=ditch, hole, pool]], a derivative of [[m|la|lacus|t=lake]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) The voicing of ⟨c⟩ to ⟨g⟩ is a feature of northern Italy.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) It is a doublet of [[lacune]];^(Wiktionary) “lacune” itself meant “pool, pond” from 1575 to 1613, taken straight from Latin, a sense still alive in the Landes and the Gironde.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Belleforest (1574) writes ''lacune'', a Latinism, for the lagoons of Venice; the word was first used of them.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A ''lagune'' is a stretch of shallow salt water between the mainland and a sand bar, like the lagoon of Venice or those of the Languedoc coast;^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989) Buffon (1770) also used it for a small lake in marshy country.^(GLLF 1989) The adjective ''lagunaire'' is from 1886, and in Ivory Coast French the ''Lagunaires'' are the peoples of the coastal zone.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1304 – Italian ''laguna'' “marsh, pond”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * before 1488 – Venetian ''laguna'' “coastal lagoon”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1574 – ''Lacune'' (Belleforest).^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1701 – ''Lagune'' (Furetière).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1762 – First recorded by the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 1886 – ''Lagunaire''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|lagoon]], a stretch of shallow salt water cut off from the sea by a sand bar.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(dated)'' A small lake or pool in marshy country.^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lacune]]

+ * [[lac]]

+ * [[lagon]]

+ * [[la|lacūna]]

+ * [[en|lagoon]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}