lantern

Etymology
(13th century), via from, itself a corruption of  (see , ) by influence of. The spelling lanthorn was current during the 16th to 19th centuries and originates with a folk etymology associating the word with the use of horn as translucent cover. For the verb, compare 🇨🇬 to hang at the lamppost. Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.
 * 2)  Especially, a metal casing with lens used to illuminate a stage (e.g. spotlight, floodlight).
 * 3)  An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
 * 4)  A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
 * 5)  A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light.
 * the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral
 * 1)  A lantern pinion or trundle wheel.
 * 2)  A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc.; a lantern brass.
 * 3)  A light formerly used as a signal by a railway guard or conductor at night.
 * 4)  A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
 * 5)  Aristotle's lantern
 * 1)  A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
 * 2)  Aristotle's lantern

Translations

 * Albanian:, luqerë
 * Aleut: funaarix̂
 * Alutiiq: fanaʀuq
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: فانوس
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: fənər
 * Belarusian: ліхта́р
 * Bengali: লণ্ঠন,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: дэнлүү
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Classical Nahuatl: ocōcallōtl, tlāhuīlcalli
 * Czech:
 * Danish: lanterne
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: lanterno
 * Estonian: latern
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ფარანი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌼𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, फ़ानूस,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: fonari
 * Irish: laindéar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (also: ), ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: шам, фонарь
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, 등롱,
 * Kyrgyz: фонарь, панар
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, lampas
 * Latvian: laterna
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: фенер
 * Malay:, lentera
 * Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩᠯᡠ
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lanterne
 * Nynorsk: lanterne
 * Old East Slavic: фонарь
 * Ottoman Turkish: فنر, فانوس
 * Pashto:, لاټين
 * Pennsylvania German: Lutzer, Ladann
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Latoarn
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: lòchran, lanntair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фѐњер
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: lucerna, lampáš
 * Slovene: laterna,
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, fanusi
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, โคมไฟ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: fener
 * Ukrainian: ліхта́р
 * Urdu: لالٹین, فانوس
 * Uyghur: پانار
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: llusern
 * Zhuang: daengloengz


 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To furnish with a lantern.
 * to lantern a lighthouse

Adjective

 * 1) Of a facial feature, large and squarish in shape as an old-fashioned lantern.