Lantern: Greek light on October nights

I had assumed lantern would be Germanic, but its ancestry lies elsewhere: from Greek lampter ‘torch’, through Latin and French into English. Posting in early October, as nights are lengthening, I think of the way novels describe life before electricity — a lantern lifted to feed cattle, or carried across the prairie in Little House on the Prairie. This card traces how the word has kept its shape, always meaning a container that makes fire safe to carry.