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English
Etymology
From Latin lūcentem, the present participle of lūcēre (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent)
- Emitting light; shining, luminous.
1922 (date written; published 1926), T E Lawrence, “Book IV: Extending to Akaba. Chapter XXXIX.”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1937, →OCLC, page 228:Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes.
- Translucent; clear, lucid.
1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, chapter I, in In the “Stranger People’s” Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 16: her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.
Derived terms
Translations
Emitting light; shining, luminous
Further reading
Latin
Verb
lūcent
- third-person plural present active indicative of lūceō