Noun: lamp
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like lamp
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek λᾰ́μπω (lắmpō)
3. Ancient Greek -άζω (-ázō)
4. Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ς (-ắs)
5. Ancient Greek λᾰμπᾰ́ς (lămpắs)
6. Byzantine Greek λαμπάδα (lampáda)bor.
7. Late Latin lampada
8. Old French lampebor.
9. Middle English laumpe
10. English lamp
11. From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”). See: Middle English Nouns '
laumpe', Latin Nouns '
lampas', Ancient Greek Nouns '
λαμπάς', Old English Nouns '
lēohtfæt'.
Verbs referencing "lamp"
German Nouns
Lampe.