lucarne

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lucarne, from Germanic. See below.

Noun

lucarne (plural lucarnes)

1. (architecture) A dormer-window.
2. (architecture) A window or opening in an industrial building that supports a hoist above doors on a lower floor.

Anagrams

• crenula, nuclear, unclear

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French lucarne, luquarme, from Old French lucanne (“opening in the roof of a house, skylight, loft”), from Frankish *lūkinnjā (“opening closed by a valve, flap”), a diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *lūkā (“hatch, window”), from Proto-Germanic *lūkaną (“to lock, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Middle Low German lûke (“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

Descendants

• → Romanian: lucarnă

Further reading

• “lucarne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lanceur