Λουκᾶς

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

Formed with the suffix -ᾶς (-âs) as the hypocoristic of the Greco-Roman name Λούκιος (Loúkios, Lucius) or Λουκανός (Loukanós, Lucanus) or both.[1][2][3][4][5]

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Λουκᾶς (Loukâsm (genitive Λουκᾶ); first declension

  1. Luke, Lucas

Declension

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Schulze, Wilhelm (1901) Graeca Latina (in Latin), Göttingen: Officina Academica Dieterichiana, page 12
  2. ^ Moulton, James Hope, Howard, Wilbert Francis (1919–1929) A Grammar of New Testament Greek, II: Accidence and Word-Formation, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, section 37, page 88
  3. ^ Egger, Carolus (1963) “Luca, Luc, Lucas, Luke, Lukas”, in Lexicon nominum virorum et mulierum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Rome: Societas libraria "Studium", page 155a
  4. ^ Blass, Friedrich, Debrunner, Albert, Rehkopf, Friedrich (1975) Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch (in German), 14th edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 125.2, footnote 6, page 100
  5. ^ Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, page 603a

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