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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lacerna.
Noun
lacerna f (plural lacerne)
- lacerna (cloak used by Romans)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Probably from Etruscan.
Pronunciation
Noun
lacerna f (genitive lacernae); first declension
- A form of cloak, fastened at the neck, worn over a toga
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “lacerna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lacerna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lacerna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lacerna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lacerna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “lacerna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin