luceo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *loukēō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewkéh₁yeti, from *lewk- (“to shine”) (whence lūx).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.ke.oː/, [ˈɫ̪uːkeoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.t͡ʃe.o/, [ˈluːt͡ʃeo]
Verb
lūceō (present infinitive lūcēre, perfect active lūxī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem
- I shine
- Requiem aeternam dona eis, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
- Give them eternal rest, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
- (of the day) I dawn, become light
- I show through; I become visible
- I am conspicuous, apparent, evident
Conjugation
| Conjugation of lūceō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | lūceō | lūcēs | lūcet | lūcēmus | lūcētis | lūcent |
| imperfect | lūcēbam | lūcēbās | lūcēbat | lūcēbāmus | lūcēbātis | lūcēbant | |
| future | lūcēbō | lūcēbis | lūcēbit | lūcēbimus | lūcēbitis | lūcēbunt | |
| perfect | lūxī | lūxistī | lūxit | lūximus | lūxistis | lūxērunt, lūxēre | |
| pluperfect | lūxeram | lūxerās | lūxerat | lūxerāmus | lūxerātis | lūxerant | |
| future perfect | lūxerō | lūxeris | lūxerit | lūxerimus | lūxeritis | lūxerint | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | lūceam | lūceās | lūceat | lūceāmus | lūceātis | lūceant |
| imperfect | lūcērem | lūcērēs | lūcēret | lūcērēmus | lūcērētis | lūcērent | |
| perfect | lūxerim | lūxerīs | lūxerit | lūxerīmus | lūxerītis | lūxerint | |
| pluperfect | lūxissem | lūxissēs | lūxisset | lūxissēmus | lūxissētis | lūxissent | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | lūcē | — | — | lūcēte | — |
| future | — | lūcētō | lūcētō | — | lūcētōte | lūcentō | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | lūcēre | lūxisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | lūcēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| lūcendī | lūcendō | lūcendum | lūcendō | — | — | ||
Derived terms
Derived terms
- allūceō
- circumlūceō
- collūceō
- conluceo
- dīlūceō
- ēlūceō
- illūceō
- interlūceō
- lūcēns
- lucerna
- lūcidus
- pellūceō / perlūceō
- praelūceō
- prōlūceō
- relūceō
- sublūceō
- superlūceō
- trānslūceō
Related terms
- lūx
Descendants
- Aromanian: lutsescu, lutsiri
- Asturian: llucir
- Friulian: lusî
- Galician: lucir, lucente
- Italian: lucere
- Ligurian: luxî
- Old French: luisir
- French: luire
- Norman: lîser
- Old Occitan: luzir
- Catalan: lluir
- Occitan: lusir
- Piedmontese: luse
- Portuguese: luzir
- Romanian: luci, lucire
- Romansch: glischar, glüschir
- Sardinian: luchere, lughere, luxiri, luxi
- Spanish: lucir
References
- “luceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “luceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- luceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- when it was day: ubi illuxit, luxit, diluxit
- it is daylight: lucet
- (ambiguous) at daybreak: prima luce
- (ambiguous) in full daylight: luce (luci)
- (ambiguous) to enjoy the privilege of living; to be alive: vita or hac luce frui
- (ambiguous) to shun publicity: forensi luce carere
- (ambiguous) this is as clear as daylight: hoc est luce (sole ipso) clarius
- when it was day: ubi illuxit, luxit, diluxit