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lapse
English
Etymology
From Middle French laps, from Latin l?psus, from l?b? (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /læps/
- Rhymes: -æps
Noun
lapse (plural lapses)
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- Synonyms: blooper, gaffe, thinko; see also Thesaurus:error
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A pause in continuity.
- Synonyms: hiatus, moratorium; see also Thesaurus:pause
- An interval of time between events.
- Synonyms: between-time, gap; see also Thesaurus:interim
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- (meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- (law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- (theology) A fall or apostasy.
Derived terms
Related terms
- lapsarian
Translations
Verb
lapse (third-person singular simple present lapses, present participle lapsing, simple past and past participle lapsed)
- (intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
- (intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
- To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
- (intransitive) To become void.
- To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
Anagrams
- ALSEP, ELSPA, Lapes, Leaps, Pales, Peals, Slape, e-pals, leaps, lepas, pales, peals, pleas, salep, sepal, slape, spale
Danish
Noun
lapse c
- indefinite plural of laps
Estonian
Noun
lapse
- genitive singular of laps
Latin
Participle
l?pse
- vocative masculine singular of l?psus
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lacuna
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)
- A small opening; a small pit or depression.
- A small blank space; a gap or vacancy; a hiatus.
- An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.
- Any gap, break, hole, or lack in a set of things; something missing.
- (microscopy) A space visible between cells, allowing free passage of light.
- (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)
- gap
- blank (space)
- 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”).
This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
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
- a hole, pit
- an opening, cavity, hollow, cleft
- 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)
- hiatus (gap in a series)
- Synonym: hiato
- blank (space to be filled in)
Related terms
- lagoa
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [la?kuna]
Noun
lacuna f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of lacun?
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