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See also: Lux, LUX, and Lux.

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʌks/
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Homophone: lucks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lūx (light), from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (white; light; bright). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, white, blank, light, bright, clear), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, light, morning twilight), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate), Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬 (rōz, day) and Old English lēoht (noun) (English light).

Noun

lux (plural lux or luxes)

  1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
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Etymology 2

Compare French luxer. See luxate.

Verb

lux (third-person singular simple present luxes, present participle luxing, simple past and past participle luxed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislocate; to luxate.
    • 1835, Alfred Velpeau, Granville Sharp Pattison, New Elements of Operative Surgery:
      the bones are simply luxed without being broken

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux.

Pronunciation

Noun

lux m inan

  1. lux (unit of illuminance or illumination)

Declension

Further reading

  • lux in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • lux in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • lux in Internetová jazyková příručka

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *louks, from Proto-Indo-European *léwks. Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, white, blank, light, bright, clear), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, light, morning twilight), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate) and Old English lēoht (English light (noun)).

Pronunciation

Noun

lūx f (genitive lūcis); third declension

  1. light (of the sun, stars etc.)
    Synonym: lūmen
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.3:
      dīxitque Deus fīat lūx et facta est lūx
      And God said: Let there be light. And there was light.
  2. daylight, day, moonlight
    Synonym: aurōra
    prima luceat daybreak
    ad lucemat dawn
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.113–116:
      huic aliquis iuvenum dīxisset amantia verba,
      reddēbat tālēs prōtinus illa sonōs:
      ‘haec loca lūcīs habent nimis et cum lūce pudōris;
      sī sēcrēta magis dūcis in antra, sequor.’
      If ever some young man spoke to this the words of love, immediately she replied with statements such as: “These places have too much of daylight and, with the light, of shame; if you lead to more secluded caves, I follow .”
      (A clever ruse used by Cardea; along the journey to the cave, she would then hide from her unsuspecting suitor.)
  3. life
    Synonym: vīta
  4. (figuratively) public view
  5. glory, encouragement
  6. enlightenment, explanation
  7. splendour
  8. eyesight, the eyes, luminary

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūx lūcēs
Genitive lūcis lūcum
Dative lūcī lūcibus
Accusative lūcem lūcēs
Ablative lūce
lūcī
lūcibus
Vocative lūx lūcēs
  • A locative singular lūcī is attested by Plautus, meaning "by daylight".

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References

  • lux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lux 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)
  • lux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • before daybreak: ante lucem
    • the day is already far advanced: multus dies or multa lux est
    • to see the light, come into the world: in lucem edi
    • those to whom we owe our being: ei, propter quos hanc lucem aspeximus
    • to sleep on into the morning: in lucem dormire
    • to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
    • (ambiguous) at daybreak: prima luce
    • (ambiguous) in full daylight: luce (luci)
    • (ambiguous) to enjoy the privilege of living; to be alive: vita or hac luce frui
    • (ambiguous) to shun publicity: forensi luce carere
    • (ambiguous) this is as clear as daylight: hoc est luce (sole ipso) clarius
  • Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lux

Noun

lux m (plural lux or luxes)

  1. lux (the derived unit of illuminance)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French lux.

Noun

lux m (plural lucși)

  1. lux

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

Pronunciation

Noun

lux m (plural lux)

  1. lux

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux.

Noun

lux c

  1. lux (singular and plural)