Etymology

lagoon

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Today it means: A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar. Full definition →

French lagune ← Italian laguna ← Latin lacūna
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  1. Latin · derived fromlacūna
  2. Italian · derived fromlaguna
  3. French · borrowed fromlagune
  4. English todaylagoon

Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacūna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune.

Words from the same roots

Frenchlagune all →

lagune

Latinlacūna all →

lacunalagunecunette

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.