lanterna

• IPA^(key): /lanˈterna/
• Rhymes: -erna
• Hyphenation: lan‧ter‧na

lanterna (accusative singular lanternan, plural lanternaj, accusative plural lanternajn)

1. of or related to lanterns

• lanterno (“lantern”)

• Homophones: lanternas, lanternât

lanterna

1. third-person singular past historic of lanterner

From Latin lanterna.

• IPA^(key): /lanˈtɛr.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛrna
• Hyphenation: lan‧tèr‧na

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lanterna f (plural lanterne)

1. lantern (all senses)
2. lighthouse

• lanterna magica (“magic lantern”)

• → Alemannic German: Lantärne

• lāterna

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr), from λάμπω (lámpō, “to shine”), with influence from lucerna (“oil lamp”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫanˈtɛr.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lan̪ˈt̪ɛr.na]

lanterna f (genitive lanternae); first declension

1. lantern, lamp
2. torch

First-declension noun.

• (lamp): lucerna

• lanternārius

• → Asturian: llinterna
• → Catalan: llanterna
• → Galician: lanterna
• → Italian: lanterna
  • → Alemannic German: Lantärne
• Luxembourgish: Lanter
• → Middle High German: latërne
  • German: Laterne
  • Hunsrik: Latern
  • Pennsylvania German: Ladann
  • → Estonian: latern
  • → Latvian: laterna
  • → Polish: latarnia
  • → Slovene: laterna
• → Old French: lanterne
  • French: lanterne
    • → Danish: lanterne
    • → Dutch: lantaarn
    • → Norwegian: lanterne
    • → Romanian: lanternă
    • → Swedish: lanterna
  • Norman: lantèrne
  • Walloon: lantiene
  • → Middle English: lanterne, launterne, lantren, lantern
    • English: lantern, lanthorn (archaic)
      • → Bengali: লন্ঠন (lonṭhon)
        • Hindi: लालटेन (lālṭen)
      • → Irish: laindéar
      • → Malay: lentera
        • Indonesian: lentera
      • → Telugu: లాంతరు (lāntaru)
    • Scots: lantern
• → Portuguese: lanterna
  • Papiamentu: lanterna
  • → Kannada: ಲಾಂದ್ರ (lāndra)
  • → Malayalam: റാന്തൽ (ṟāntal)
• → Spanish: linterna

• “lanterna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lanterna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lanterna", 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)
• lanterna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lanterna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lanterna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• lanternen

lanterna m or f

1. definite feminine singular of lanterne

lanterna f

1. definite singular of lanterne

• IPA^(key): /laŋˈtɛrna/

lanterna f (plural lanterne)

1. lantern

Borrowed from Latin lanterna (“lantern; lamp”), corruption of Ancient Greek λαμπτήρ (lamptḗr, “torch”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɛʁnɐ, (Portugal) -ɛɾnɐ
• Hyphenation: lan‧ter‧na

lanterna f (plural lanternas)

1. flashlight (battery-powered hand-held lightsource)
2. lantern (case of transparent material made to protect a flame, or light)
3. headlight (light in front of a vehicle)
4. lamp of a lighthouse
5. (architecture) roof lantern (type of cupola)
6. (Brazil, slang) the last place in a competition

lanterna m or f by sense (plural lanternas)

1. (Brazil, slang) the contestant in the last place of a competition

• (lantern): candeeiro, lâmpada, lampião
• (headlight): farol (Brazil)
• (last place): último lugar
• (contestant in the last place): lanterninha, último colocado

• (antonym(s) of “last place”): primeiro lugar
• (antonym(s) of “contestant in the last place”): primeiro colocado

• (roof lantern): claraboia, cúpula

• (lamp of a lighthouse): farol

• Papiamentu: lanterna
• → Kannada: ಲಾಂದ್ರ (lāndra)
• → Malayalam: റാന്തൽ (ṟāntal)

• “lanterna”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “lanterna”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /lanˈtæːɳa/, /ˈlanˌtæːɳa/
• Hyphenation: lan‧ter‧na

lanterna c

1. (nautical, aviation) a navigation light
2. (now uncommon) a (large) lantern

   Synonym: lykta

• lykta (the usual word for lantern)

• lanterna in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lanterna in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lanterna in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)