lucidus

Latin

Etymology

From lūceō (“shine”) +‎ -idus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.ki.dus/, [ˈɫ̪uːkɪd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.t͡ʃi.dus/, [ˈluːt͡ʃid̪us]

Adjective

lūcidus (feminine lūcida, neuter lūcidum, comparative lūcidior, superlative lūcidissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. clear, bright, shining, full of light

   Synonym: clārus

   Antonyms: obscūrus, opācus

2. (figuratively) clear, perspicuous, lucid

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lūcidus	lūcida	lūcidum		lūcidī	lūcidae	lūcida
genitive	lūcidī	lūcidae	lūcidī		lūcidōrum	lūcidārum	lūcidōrum
dative	lūcidō	lūcidae	lūcidō		lūcidīs
accusative	lūcidum	lūcidam	lūcidum		lūcidōs	lūcidās	lūcida
ablative	lūcidō	lūcidā	lūcidō		lūcidīs
vocative	lūcide	lūcida	lūcidum		lūcidī	lūcidae	lūcida

Derived terms

• lūcidē
• lūciditās

Translingual

• Chaetoderma lucidum
• Hieracium lucidum
• Ligustrum lucidum
• Mecodema lucidum
• Theridiosoma lucidum
• Vaccinium lucidum

 

Related terms

• lūcēns
• lūceō
• lūcerna

 

Descendants

• Italian: lucido
• Franco-Provençal: êluido (from *exlucidus)
• Piedmontese: lùcid
• Portuguese: lúzio
• Romanian: luced
• Spanish: lucio

• → Catalan: lúcid
• → English: lucid
• → Galician: lúcido
• → German: luzid
• → French: lucide
• → Portuguese: lúcido
• → Romanian: lucid
• → Spanish: lúcido

References

• “lucidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lucidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lucidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.