luce
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French lus, luis, from Latin lūcius.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /luːs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /ˈlʉs/
- Rhymes: -uːs
Noun
[edit]luce (plural luces)
- The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- As wee hunt after beasts, so Tygers and Lyons hunt after men, and have a like exercise one upon another: Hounds over the Hare; the Pike or Luce over the Tench […].
Translations
[edit]Esox lucius
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See also
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[edit]Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]luce
Italian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin lūcem (“light”), from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“bright; white”). Doublet of the borrowed lux.
Noun
[edit]luce f (plural luci)
- light (visible electromagnetic wave; electrical device providing light)
- clearance
- span (engineering)
Related terms
[edit]- dare alla luce, mettere in buona luce, mettere in cattiva luce, portare alla luce, venire alla luce, alla luce di
- lucere
- lucerna
- lucido
- Lucifero
- lucifero
- velocità della luce
- luci della ribalta, a luci rosse, luce di arresto, luce di posizione
- lucore
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]luce
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation 1
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈluː.ke/, [ˈɫ̪uːkɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.t͡ʃe/, [ˈluːt͡ʃe]
Adverb
[edit]lūce (not comparable)
- by daylight
Noun
[edit]lūce f
Pronunciation 2
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈluː.keː/, [ˈɫ̪uːkeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.t͡ʃe/, [ˈluːt͡ʃe]
Verb
[edit]lūcē
References
[edit]- “luce”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “luce”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- luce in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]luce f
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]luce f (plural luci)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | luce | lucea | luci | lucile | |
genitive-dative | luci | lucii | luci | lucilor | |
vocative | luce, luceo | lucilor |
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈluθe/ [ˈlu.θe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈluse/ [ˈlu.se]
- Rhymes: -uθe
- Rhymes: -use
- Syllabification: lu‧ce
Verb
[edit]luce
- inflection of lucir:
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