lacune

From French lacune. Doublet of lacuna and lagoon.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ləˈk(j)uːn/

lacune (plural lacunes)

1. A lacunar stroke or infarct.
   • 2018, The New England Journal of Medicine, →DOI:

     We compared the efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban […] with aspirin […] for the prevention of recurrent stroke in patients with recent ischemic stroke that was presumed to be from cerebral embolism but without arterial stenosis, lacune, or an identified cardioembolic source.

2. A lacuna.
   • 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: Taylor and Hessey, , →OCLC:

     Let us climb over the ice and snow, leap across the lacune, and wipe away the stiria

• “lacune”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Lucena, auncel, auncle, cuneal, launce, unlace

Borrowed from French lacune. Doublet of lagune.

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Hyphenation: la‧cu‧ne

lacune f (plural lacunes, diminutive lacunetje n)

1. a gap
2. (figuratively) something that is missing

   Synonym: leemte

Borrowed from Latin lacūna. Doublet of lagune.

• IPA^(key): /la.kyn/

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lacune f (plural lacunes)

1. gap
2. vacuum, empty space
3. (figuratively) lack; thing that is missing
4. (usually in the plural) ignorance, shortcoming

• → Dutch: lacune
• → English: lacune
• → Romanian: lacună

• “lacune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• encula

• IPA^(key): /laˈku.ne/
• Rhymes: -une
• Hyphenation: la‧cù‧ne

lacune f

1. plural of lacuna

• alcune, lucane, nucale

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lacune f

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