Etymology

luthern

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Today it means: A dormer-window. Full definition →

French lucarne ← Latin lucerna
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromlucerna“lamp”
  2. French · derived fromlucarne“a dormer, dormer window, garret window”
  3. 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.