Etymograph

English

laquearia

Laquearia comes from Latin laquear ‘a panelled or fretted ceiling’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaquearas laqueāria‘a panelled or fretted ceiling’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1922laquearia

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElaquearas laqueāria‘a panelled or fretted ceiling’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1922laquearia

Earliest quotation: 1922, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Part II. A Game of Chess.: “[…] stirred by the air / That freshened from…”

Linked words

through Proto-Italic *lakʷ- ‘to ensnare’

interlace, 4 more

through Latin laqueus ‘snare, trap’

lace, lash, lasso, 6 more

through Latin lacūna ‘gap, void’

lagoon, lacuna, 5 more

Today it means

noun The panels of a coffered ceiling in Ancient Rome; a coffered ceiling.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin laquear / laquearia

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