cunette
cu·nette
cunette · cunettes
Künette
A trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackersA trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
/kjuːˈnɛt/
Meaning
1 sensesA trench dug in a moat to allow for drainage, or as an extra obstacle for attackers.
Künette
Translations
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Origin
From French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to bFrom French cunette (possibly also lacunette), from Italian cunetta (“cunette”), said to be from lacunetta, diminutive of lacuna (“ditch; lagoon; gap”), from Latin lacūna (“hole, pit; cavity, cleft, hollow, opening; gap, void”), from lacus (“lake”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“lake, pool”).
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