laquear

Borrowed from Latin laquear.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.wi.ɚ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlæk.wiː.ɑː/

laquear (plural laquears)

1. (architecture) A lacunar.
   • 1903, Suetonius, Gai Suetoni Tranquilli De Vita Caesarum, Libri III-VI, page 298:

     these were the panels proper of the laquear or fretted ceiling.

   • 1919, Leo Wiener, Contributions Towards a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture, page 351:

     Gradus in quo lector stat, Amp. I, V. 381, it is clear that the ambo, which is meant by it, was to a certain extent an imitation of the laquear in Solomon's temple .

   • 2022, John Addington Symonds, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti:

     The sunk or hollow compartments, which form the laquear of this depressed vault, differ considerably in shape and arrangement from those which were adopted when it was finally rejected.

2. The upper portion of the vagina.
   • 1860, E. Noeggerath, “Remarks on the Employment of Uterine Pessaries, With the Description of a New Instrument.”, in The Retrospect of Medicine, volume 41, page 284:

     The instrument thus bent is gently pushed upwards, so tahat its points take a position to the right and left side of the uterine neck, as high up as possible in the laquear vaginæ.

   • 1874, “Ætiology of Uterine Flexions”, in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, page 489:

     The distance from the posterior laquear to the bottom of Douglas's cul-de-sac measures 1.5, 2.6 to 3.7 centimetres; in a woman in the seventh month of pregnancy, even 5.8 centimetres.

   • 1890, August Eduard Martin, Ernest Watson Cushing, Pathology and Therapeutics of the Diseases of Women, page 348:

     Rent of cervix and roof of the vagina (laquear) on the right side.

   • 1894, Casey A. Wood, T. A. Woodruff, “The Uterus and the Eye, an Ophthalmic Review for the General Practitioner”, in The North American Practitioner, volume 6, page 16:

     The great ganglionic apparatus of the uterus lies imbedded in the parts surrounding the lateral portion of the Laquear Vaginæ but above the level of the Laquear.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “laquear”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Laquear”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• “laquear”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• laqueāre
• laqueārium

According to Isidore of Seville, a corruption from lacūna (“gap, void”), or else from laqueus (“snare, trap”), both perhaps dubious.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.kʷe.ar]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.kʷe.ar]

laquear n (genitive laqueāris); third declension

1. a panelled or fretted ceiling

Third-declension noun (neuter, pure i-stem).

• “laquear”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laquear in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “laquear”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From laca +‎ -ear.

• IPA^(key): /lakeˈaɾ/ [la.keˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: la‧que‧ar

laquear (first-person singular present laqueo, first-person singular preterite laqueé, past participle laqueado)

1. to lacquer

   Synonyms: barnizar, lacar

• “laquear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024