lacuna
English
/ləˈkjuː.nə/, /ləˈkuː.nə/
noun
Definitions
- A small opening; a small pit or depression.
- A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
- An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
- Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
- (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
- (translation studies) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lacūna (pit, cleft, gap, hole, cavity, ditch, hollow).
Origin
Latin
lacūna
Gloss
pit, cleft, gap, hole, cavity, ditch, hollow
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
堀
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- lacunal English
- lacunary English
- lacunose English
- lacunosity English
- lacus Latin
- lacūna Latin
- cunetta Italian
- laguna Italian
- lacune French
- laguna Spanish, Castilian
- *lókus Proto-Indo-European
- lacuna Portuguese
- Llaguna Catalan, Valencian
- llacuna Catalan, Valencian
- lagõa Old Portuguese
- *lakus Proto-Italic
- llaguna Asturian