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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *lukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Compare with male lūminātus (“short-sighted”), from the same root.
Pronunciation
Adjective
luscus (feminine lusca, neuter luscum); first/second-declension adjective
- one-eyed
- half blind, blind in one eye
- with one eye shut, as when taking aim
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
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References
- “luscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “luscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- luscus 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)
- luscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “luscus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray