lacunar Latin · revision 34268

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *lok-u-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɫaˈkuː.nar]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [laˈkuː.nar]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lacūnar''' ''n'' (genitive lacūnāris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The plural is often ''lacūnāria'', with genitive ''lacūnāriōrum'' in Vitruvius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ Isidore gives a nominative ''lacūnārium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|lacūna|-āris|t1=hollow, gap]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists it under [[m|la|lacus|t=lake, basin]] and explains it as “that which contains hollows”; its likeness in meaning to [[m|la|laqueātus|t=panelled]] he thinks a coincidence.^(de Vaan 2008) That noun goes back to [[itc-pro|*laku-]] and [[ine-pro|*lok-u-|t=lake]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|loch]], [[grc|λάκκος|tr=lákkos|t=pond]] and [[ang|lagu]].^(de Vaan 2008) Servius already related it to ⟨lacus⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler and de Vaan record it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010)^(de Vaan 2008) who tells of a sword let down ''e lacunari'', from the ceiling, hanging by a horsehair.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is one of the sunken ornamental panels of a ceiling, and in the plural or as a collective singular a panelled ceiling.^(OLD 2012) Horace says that no ivory or gilded ceiling shines in his house, ''non ebur neque aureum mea renidet in domo lacunar''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses the plural of painted ceilings.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Juvenal's ''spectare lacunar'', to gaze at the ceiling, means to pretend not to notice.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) Vitruvius uses it of a kind of sundial.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) Medieval writers in Britain use it of a panelled ceiling, glossed in Old English, and figuratively of the lid of a coffin.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a ceiling.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius uses it of a sundial and of ceiling panels.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace has ''aureum lacunar''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal has ''spectare lacunar'', to turn a blind eye.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 560–636 AD – Isidore gives the form ''lacunarium''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A sunken [[m|en|panel]] of a ceiling, a [[m|en|coffer]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010) (plural or collective) a panelled or [[m|en|coffered]] ceiling.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''spectare lacunar'': to gaze at the ceiling, to turn a blind eye.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A kind of [[m|en|sundial]].^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The lid of a [[m|en|coffin]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lacūna]]

+ * [[lacus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}