lucius

See also: Lucius

Latin

Etymology

From lūx (“light”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.ki.us/, [ˈɫ̪uːkiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.t͡ʃi.us/, [ˈluːt͡ʃius]

Noun

lūcius m (genitive lūciī or lūcī); second declension

1. a fish, probably the pike

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lūcius	lūciī
genitive	lūciī lūcī1	lūciōrum
dative	lūciō	lūciīs
accusative	lūcium	lūciōs
ablative	lūciō	lūciīs
vocative	lūcī	lūciī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Catalan: lluç, → luci (learned)
• → English: lucy
• Old French: lus
  • → English: luce
    • → Irish: liús
• Italian: luccio
• Piedmontese: luss
• Spanish: lucio

References

• “lucius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lucius 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)
• lucius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lucius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Rauch, Irmengard & Carr, Gerald (2011): Methodology in Transition