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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lucifer (“light-bearing”) (from lux, lucis (“light”)) + the suffix -ous.
Adjective
luciferous
- illuminating; providing light.
- (figurative) Illuminating; offering insight.
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXIV:[I]t affords a very pleasant object through the Microscope, and may, perhaps, upon further examination, prove very luciferous.
Translations
figuratively illuminating