Etymology

lagune

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Today it means: Dated spelling of lagoon. Full definition →

French lagune ← Venetan laguna ← Latin lacūna
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlacūna
  2. Venetan · derived fromlaguna
  3. French · borrowed fromlagune
  4. English todaylagune

Borrowed from French lagune, from Venetan laguna, from Latin lacūna.

Words from the same roots

Frenchlagune all →

Latinlacūna all →

lagoonlacunacunette

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.