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lacunose

adj

Etymology

From lacuna + -ose.

  1. learned borrowing from lacūna — “a ditch, pit; a hollow, cavity; a gap, defect”
  2. suffixed as lacunose — “lacuna + ose”

Definitions

  1. Full of gaps or lacunae.

    • 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: [...]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lacunose. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA