lagune

See also: Lagune

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lagune.

Noun

lagune (plural lagunes)

  1. Dated form of lagoon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lagune in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna "pond, hole", from lacus "pond, lake".

Noun

lagune c (singular definite lagunen, plural indefinite laguner)

  1. lagoon

Inflection
Declension of lagune
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative lagune lagunen laguner lagunerne
genitive lagunes lagunens laguners lagunernes

References

Dutch
lagune

Etymology

From French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacuna (“pond, hole”), from lacus (“pond, lake”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌlaːˈɣy.nə/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: la‧gu‧ne
  • Rhymes: -ynə

Noun

lagune f (plural lagunes or lagunen, diminutive lagunetje n)

  1. lagoon, shallow body of coastal water

Synonyms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Venetian Italian laguna[1], from Latin lacūna. Doublet of lacune.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /la.ɡyn/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

lagune f (plural lagunes)

  1. lagoon, shallow body of coastal water

Descendants
  • → Danish: lagune
  • → Dutch: lagune
  • → English: lagoon

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

Anagrams

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /laˈɡu.ne/
  • Rhymes: -une
  • Hyphenation: la‧gù‧ne

Noun

lagune f

  1. plural of laguna

Anagrams

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin lacuna, via Italian laguna and German Lagune.

Noun

lagune m (definite singular lagunen, indefinite plural laguner, definite plural lagunene)

  1. a lagoon

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin lacuna, via Italian laguna and German Lagune.

Noun

lagune m (definite singular lagunen, indefinite plural lagunar, definite plural lagunane)
lagune f (definite singular laguna, indefinite plural laguner, definite plural lagunene)

  1. a lagoon

References

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [laˈɡune]

Noun

lagune f

  1. inflection of lagună:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular
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