lucius
See also: Lucius
Latin
Etymology
From lūx (“light”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.ki.us/, [ˈɫ̪uːkiʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.t͡ʃi.us/, [ˈluːt͡ʃius]
Noun
lūcius m (genitive lūciī or lūcī); second declension
- a fish, probably the pike
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lūcius | lūciī |
| Genitive | lūciī lūcī1 | lūciōrum |
| Dative | lūciō | lūciīs |
| Accusative | lūcium | lūciōs |
| Ablative | lūciō | lūciīs |
| Vocative | lūcie | lūciī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Catalan: lluç, → luci (learned)
- → English: lucy
- Old French: lus
- → English: luce
- → Irish: liús
- → English: luce
- Italian: luccio
- Piedmontese: luss
- Spanish: lucio
References
- “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 Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Rauch, Irmengard & Carr, Gerald (2011): Methodology in Transition