The story
- Latin · derived fromlucerna“lamp”
- French · derived fromlucarne“a dormer, dormer window, garret window”
- English todayluthern
From French lucarne (“a dormer, dormer window, garret window”), Latin lucerna (“lamp”), from lucere (“to be light or clear”), from lux (“light”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchlucarne all →
lucarne
Latinlucerna all →
lanternlucernlucernal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.