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Latin
Etymology
From lūx (“light”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lūcius m (genitive lūciī or lūcī); second declension
- a fish, probably the pike
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- Rauch, Irmengard & Carr, Gerald (2011): Methodology in Transition