different between interval vs lacuna

English

Etymology

From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, from Latin intervallum (“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”), from inter (“between”) + vallum (“palisade, wall”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt?v?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nt?v?l/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?val

Noun

interval (plural intervals)

1. A distance in space.
   • 1666, 8 September, The London Gazette

     [M]any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it [the fire] by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces […]

2. A period of time.

   the interval between contractions during childbirth

3. (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
4. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
5. (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
6. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
7. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): open interval, half-open interval, closed interval, sub-interval/subinterval,

Derived terms

• even-interval

Related terms

• interval class
• interval cycle

Translations

Further reading

• interval in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• interval in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• interval at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Interval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Interval in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intervallum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.t???val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.t?r?bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.te??val/

Noun

interval m (plural intervals)

1. interval

Further reading

• “interval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “interval” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “interval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “interval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??nt?rval]

Noun

interval m inan

1. (mathematics) interval

Derived terms

• intervalový
• otev?ený interval
• uzav?ený interval
• interval spolehlivosti
• konfiden?ní interval

Further reading

• interval in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• interval in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt?rv?l/

Noun

interval n (plural intervallen, diminutive intervalletje n)

1. interval

Derived terms

• integratie-interval

See also

• tussenruimte

Romanian

Etymology

From French intervalle, from Latin intervallum.

Noun

interval n (plural intervale)

1. interval

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /int?r?a?l/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?val

Noun

intèrv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. interval

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lac?na (“ditch, gap”), diminutive form of lacus (“lake”). Doublet of lagoon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??kju?.n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l??ku?.n?/, /l??kju?.n?/
• ,

Noun

lacuna (plural lacunae or lacunæ or lacunas)

1. A small opening; a small pit or depression.
2. A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
3. An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.

4. Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
5. (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
6. (translation studies) A language gap, which occurs when there is no direct translation in the target language for a lexical term found in the source language.

Synonyms

• hiatus
• gap
• (translation studies): anisomorphism

Derived terms

• lacunal
• lacunar
• lacunary
• lacunose

Translations

Anagrams

• canula

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lac?na. Compare the inherited doublet laguna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la?ku.na/
• Rhymes: -una

Noun

lacuna f (plural lacune)

1. gap
2. blank (space)
3. lapse (of memory)

Derived terms

• cunetta

Further reading

• lacuna in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• alcuna
• lucana

Latin

Etymology

From lacus (“lake, basin”).

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Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la?ku?.na/, [??ä?ku?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la?ku.na/, [l??ku?n?]

Noun

lac?na f (genitive lac?nae); first declension

1. a hole, pit
2. an opening, cavity, hollow, cleft
3. a gap, void, defect

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lac?nar
• lac?n?rius
• lac?n?
• lac?n?sus

Descendants

References

• lacuna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacuna in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacuna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lacuna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lacuna in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacuna in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lac?na. Compare the inherited lagoa and laguna.

Noun

lacuna f (plural lacunas)

1. hiatus (gap in a series)

   Synonym: hiato

2. blank (space to be filled in)

Related terms

• lagoa

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [la?kuna]

Noun

lacuna f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of lacun?