lucuna

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /luˈkuː.na/, [ɫ̪ʊˈkuːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈku.na/, [luˈkuːnä]

Noun

lucūna f (genitive lucūnae); first declension

1. Alternative form of lacūna.
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.552:

     Fit quoque, ubi in magnas aquae vastasque lucunas gleba vetustate e terra provolvitur ingens, […]

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.1031:

      […], viam qui quondam per mare magnum stravit iterque dedit legionibus ire per altum ac pedibus salsas docuit super ire lucunas et contempsit equis insultans murmura ponti, […]

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lucūna	lucūnae
genitive	lucūnae	lucūnārum
dative	lucūnae	lucūnīs
accusative	lucūnam	lucūnās
ablative	lucūnā	lucūnīs
vocative	lucūna	lucūnae

References

• “lucuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press