lacunar

lacunar (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a lacuna.

• lacunal

• sublacunar
• trilacunar
• unilacunar

lacunar (plural lacunars)

1. (architecture) A sunken panel or coffer in a ceiling or a soffit.
2. (architecture) A ceiling containing panels of this kind.

• canular

From lacūna (“cavity, hollow”) +‎ -ar.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /laˈkuː.nar/, [ɫ̪äˈkuːnär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈku.nar/, [läˈkuːnär]

lacūnar n (genitive lacūnāris); third declension

1. ceiling, coffered ceiling, a wainscoted and gilded ceiling of an unvaulted chamber
2. (in the plural) panels of the under surface of a cornice

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Heteroclitic forms:

• genitive plural: lacūnāriōrum
• dative plural: lacūnāriīs

• “lacunar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacunar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from French lacunaire.

lacunar m or n (feminine singular lacunară, masculine plural lacunari, feminine and neuter plural lacunare)

1. incomplete, containing gaps

lacunar m or f (masculine and feminine plural lacunares)

1. lacunar