lucius

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Latin

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Etymology

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From lūx (light).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lūcius m (genitive lūciī or lūcī); second declension

  1. a fish, probably the pike

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūcius lūciī
Genitive lūciī
lūcī1
lūciōrum
Dative lūciō lūciīs
Accusative lūcium lūciōs
Ablative lūciō lūciīs
Vocative lūcī lūciī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

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  • Catalan: lluç, luci (learned)
  • English: lucy
  • Old French: lus
  • Italian: luccio
  • Piedmontese: luss
  • Spanish: lucio

References

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  • lucius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lucius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lucius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • lucius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • Rauch, Irmengard & Carr, Gerald (2011): Methodology in Transition