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lacunose en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English lacuna Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos)der. French glucose English glucosebf. English -ose English lacunose From lacuna + -ose.

Meanings

1. (of a manuscript or other text) Full of gaps or lacunae.
   • Thus the translation attempts to render the lacunose text as accurately as possible. 1995, Iain Gardner, “Comments on the Translation”, in The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary, E.J. Brill, page xxxvii:
   • 17. Dio, 79(78).15–16 is sadly lacunose, but it is clear that Dio describes the reception by the Senate of letters from Macrinus, which Macrinus signed using the titles of office: [...] 2012, Clifford Ando, Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284: The Critical Century (The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome), 22 George Square, Edinburgh EH89LF: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 64:
2. Having large, deep depressions; pitted; having the surface covered with small cavities.

Forms

Deriveds

lacunosity

Translations (6)

io lakunoza (full of lacunae) · ro lacunos (full of lacunae) · la lacūnōsus (full of lacunae) · nl lacuneus (full of lacunae) · it lacunoso (full of lacunae) · fr lacuneux (full of lacunae)