Noun: lucarne
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | lucarne |
| Plural f | lucarnes |
Sample Sentences
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Basse et couverte de tuiles brunes, elle avait en dehors, sous la lucarne de son grenier, un chapelet d'oignons suspendu. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]
Nouns inflected like lucarne
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *lewg-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *lūkaną
4. Proto-West Germanic *lūkan
5. Proto-West Germanic *lūkāder.
6. Frankish *lūkinnjāder.
7. Old French lucanne
8. Middle French lucarne
9. French lucarne
10. 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. See: Dutch Nouns '
luik', German Nouns '
Luke'.
Verbs referencing "lucarne"
English Nouns
lucarne, English Nouns
luthern, Romanian Nouns
lucarnă.
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