lantern

来自希腊语lampter,火炬，词源同lamp,字母m,n音变。后用来指灯笼。

lantern

lantern: [13] Like lamp, lantern comes ultimately from the Greek verb lámbein ‘give light, shine’. Derived from this was the noun lamptér, which originally denoted ‘bunch of burning sticks, torch’, but was later extended to ‘lamp’. Latin borrowed it, and tacked on the ending of lucerna ‘lamp’ to produce lanterna, which English acquired via Old French lanterne. The translucent cover of lanterns was in former times usually made of horn, and so popular etymology from the 16th to the 19th centuries produced the spelling lanthorn.
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lantern (n.)

mid-13c., from Old French lanterne "lamp, lantern, light" (12c.), from Latin lanterna "lantern, lamp, torch," altered (by influence of Latin lucerna "lamp") from Greek lampter "torch," from lampein "to shine" (see lamp). Variant lanthorn (16c.-19c.) was folk etymology based on the common use of horn as a translucent cover. Lantern-jaws "hollow, long cheeks" is from a resemblance noted since at least mid-14c.

1. I've been thinking I'd better have asked for a lantern.

我一直认为我还不如要一个灯笼呢.

2. There is an ice lantern show in Harbin every year in winter.

每年冬天,哈尔滨有一次冰灯展.

3. The child next door carried a lantern.

隔壁的那个小孩提一个灯笼.

4. A lantern depended from the ceiling.

一盏灯悬挂在天花板上.

5. A little lantern blinked in the darkness.

一盏小灯笼在黑暗中微微闪光.