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English
Pronunciation
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)
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
Related terms
Translations
the derived unit of illuminance
Etymology 2
Compare French luxer. See luxate.
Verb
lux (third-person singular simple present luxes, present participle luxing, simple past and past participle luxed)
- (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
- lux (unit of illuminance or illumination)
Declension
Declension of lux (hard masculine inanimate)
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
- 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.
- daylight, day, moonlight
- Synonym: aurōra
- prima luce ― at daybreak
- ad lucem ― at 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.)
- life
- Synonym: vīta
- (figuratively) public view
- glory, encouragement
- enlightenment, explanation
- splendour
- eyesight, the eyes, luminary
Declension
Third-declension noun.
- A locative singular lūcī is attested by Plautus, meaning "by daylight".
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
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
Noun
lux m (plural lux or luxes)
- lux (the derived unit of illuminance)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French lux.
Noun
lux m (plural lucși)
- lux
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈluɡs/
- Rhymes: -uɡs
- Syllabification: lux
Noun
lux m (plural lux)
- lux
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lux.
Noun
lux c
- lux (singular and plural)