lacunar

English

Adjective

lacunar (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a lacuna.

Synonyms

• lacunal

Derived terms

• sublacunar
• trilacunar
• unilacunar

Noun

lacunar (plural lacunars)

1. (architecture) A sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling or a soffit.
2. (architecture) A ceiling containing panels of this kind.

Anagrams

• canular

Latin

Etymology

From lacūna (“cavity, hollow”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈkuː.nar/, [ɫ̪äˈkuːnär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈku.nar/, [läˈkuːnär]

Noun

lacūnar n (genitive lacūnāris); third declension

1. ceiling, coffered ceiling, a wainscoted and gilded ceiling of an unvaulted chamber
2. (in the plural) panels of the under surface of a cornice

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lacūnar	lacūnāria
Genitive	lacūnāris	lacūnārium
Dative	lacūnārī	lacūnāribus
Accusative	lacūnar	lacūnāria
Ablative	lacūnārī	lacūnāribus
Vocative	lacūnar	lacūnāria

Heteroclitic forms:

• genitive plural: lacūnāriōrum
• dative plural: lacūnāriīs

References

• “lacunar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacunar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lacunaire.

Adjective

lacunar m or n (feminine singular lacunară, masculine plural lacunari, feminine and neuter plural lacunare)

1. incomplete, containing gaps

Declension

Declension of lacunar

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	lacunar		lacunară	lacunari	lacunare
	definite	lacunarul		lacunara	lacunarii	lacunarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	lacunar		lacunare	lacunari	lacunare
	definite	lacunarului		lacunarei	lacunarilor	lacunarelor

Spanish

Adjective

lacunar m or f (masculine and feminine plural lacunares)

1. lacunar