- lagoon
[lagoon 词源字典]
- lagoon: see lake
[lagoon etymology, lagoon origin, 英语词源] - lagoon (n.)
- 1670s, lagune, earlier laguna (1610s), from French lagune or directly from Italian laguna "pond, lake," from Latin lacuna "pond, hole," from lacus "pond" (see lake (n.1)). Originally in reference to the region of Venice; applied 1769 (by Capt. Cook) to the lake-like stretch of water enclosed in a South Seas atoll. Also see -oon.