lucerna

Inherited from Old Czech lucerna, from Latin lucerna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlut͡sɛrna]

lucerna f

1. lantern

   Synonym: svítilna

• “lucerna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “lucerna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “lucerna”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

From Latin lucerna (“lamp”).

• Rhymes: -ɛɾna
• Hyphenation: lu‧cer‧na

lucerna f (plural lucernas)

1. firefly; glowworm

   Synonyms: vagalume, lucecú, lurcucú, verme canteiro, lucerga

2. grey gurnard (Eutrigla gurnardus) ray-finned fish from the family Triglidae

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lucerna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Borrowed from German Luzerne, from Latin lucerna (“an oil lamp”), from lux (“light”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlut͡sɛrnɒ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧cer‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

lucerna (plural lucernák)

1. alfalfa, lucerne (Medicago sativa)
2. alfalfa, lucerne (any plant in the genus Medicago)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	lucerna	lucernák
accusative	lucernát	lucernákat
dative	lucernának	lucernáknak
instrumental	lucernával	lucernákkal
causal-final	lucernáért	lucernákért
translative	lucernává	lucernákká
terminative	lucernáig	lucernákig
essive-formal	lucernaként	lucernákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	lucernában	lucernákban
superessive	lucernán	lucernákon
adessive	lucernánál	lucernáknál
illative	lucernába	lucernákba
sublative	lucernára	lucernákra
allative	lucernához	lucernákhoz
elative	lucernából	lucernákból
delative	lucernáról	lucernákról
ablative	lucernától	lucernáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	lucernáé	lucernáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	lucernáéi	lucernákéi

Possessive forms of lucerna
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	lucernám	lucernáim
2nd person sing.	lucernád	lucernáid
3rd person sing.	lucernája	lucernái
1st person plural	lucernánk	lucernáink
2nd person plural	lucernátok	lucernáitok
3rd person plural	lucernájuk	lucernáik

• lucerna in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Latin lucerna.

lucerna f (plural lucerne)

1. oil lamp

• lucernata

From lūceō (“shine, be a light”). The suffix -erna, found also in lanterna, is of disputed origin, though resembles suffixes in Etruscan; compare also Latin -urnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /luˈker.na/, [ɫ̪ʊˈkɛrnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈt͡ʃer.na/, [luˈt͡ʃɛrnä]

lucerna f (genitive lucernae); first declension

1. a lamp, an oil lamp
   • 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, Proverbia 24:20:

     quoniam nōn habent futūrōrum spem malī et lucerna impiōrum extinguētur

     For evil men have no hope of things to come, and the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

     (trans. Douay-Rheims Bible)

First-declension noun.

• (lamp): lanterna

• “lucerna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lucerna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lucerna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lucerna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lucerna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lucerna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from German Luzerne. Doublet of lukarna.

• IPA^(key): /luˈt͡sɛr.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɛrna
• Syllabification: lu‧cer‧na
• Homophone: Lucerna

lucerna f

1. alfalfa, burclover, lucerne, medick (any plant of the genus Medicago)
2. alfalfa, burclover, lucerne, medick (flower)

• lucerna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lucerna in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin lucerna.

• Hyphenation: lu‧cer‧na

lucerna f (plural lucernas)

1. Alternative form of luzerna

Borrowed from Latin lucerna.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /luˈθeɾna/ [luˈθeɾ.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /luˈseɾna/ [luˈseɾ.na]
• Rhymes: -eɾna
• Syllabification: lu‧cer‧na

lucerna f (plural lucernas)

1. a type of old Latin oil lamp

• “lucerna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28