lux
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /lʌks/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌks
Etymology 1
editBorrowed 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
editlux (plural lux or luxes)
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx
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Etymology 2
editCompare French luxer. See luxate.
Verb
editlux (third-person singular simple present luxes, present participle luxing, simple past and past participle luxed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To dislocate; to luxate.
- 1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey:
- and as I reel'd I fell, / Lux'd the neck-joint—my soul descends to hell.
- 1835, Alfred Velpeau, Granville Sharp Pattison, New Elements of Operative Surgery:
- the bones are simply luxed without being broken
See also
editReferences
edit- “lux”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editCzech
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlux m inan
- lux (unit of illuminance or illumination)
Declension
editFurther reading
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom 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
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /luːks/, [ɫ̪uːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /luks/, [luks]
Noun
editlūx f (genitive lūcis); third declension
- light (of the sun, stars etc.)
- Synonym: lūmen
- daylight, day, moonlight
- 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 [nymph] the words of love, immediately she replied with statements such as: “These places have too much of daylight and, with the light, [too much] of shame; if you lead to more secluded caves, I [will] follow [you].”
(A clever ruse used by Cardea; along the journey to the cave, she would then hide from her unsuspecting suitor.)
- If ever some young man spoke to this [nymph] the words of love, immediately she replied with statements such as: “These places have too much of daylight and, with the light, [too much] of shame; if you lead to more secluded caves, I [will] follow [you].”
- huic aliquis iuvenum dīxisset amantia verba,
- life
- Synonym: vīta
- (figuratively) public view
- glory, encouragement
- enlightenment, explanation
- splendour
- eyesight, the eyes, luminary
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lūx | lūcēs |
Genitive | lūcis | lūcum |
Dative | lūcī | lūcibus |
Accusative | lūcem | lūcēs |
Ablative | lūce lūcī |
lūcibus |
Vocative | lūx | lūcēs |
- A locative singular lūcī is attested by Plautus, meaning "by daylight".
Derived terms
edit- ēlūcus
- lūce (“in the daytime”)
- lūce carentēs (“the dead”)
- lūcidus
- lūcifer
- lūcīnus, Lūcīna
- lūculentus
- prīmā lūce (“at daybreak”)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Aragonese: luz
- Asturian: lluz
- → Catalan: lux
- → Czech: lux
- → English: lux (technical term)
- Dalmatian: loic
- → Finnish: luksi
- → French: lux
- Friulian: lûs
- → Greek: λουξ (loux)
- Italian: luce
- → Italian: lux
- Ligurian: lûxe
- Lombard: lüs
- Mirandese: luç
- Neapolitan: luce
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: luz
- Piedmontese: luce, lus
- → Polish: luks
- → Portuguese: lux
- Romagnol: luš
- → Romanian: lux
- Romansch: glisch, glüsch, gleisch
- Sardinian: luche, lughe, luxi
- Sicilian: luci
- Spanish: luz
- → Spanish: lux
- → Swedish: lux
- Venetian: łuxe
References
edit- “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[1], 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
- before daybreak: ante lucem
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: lux
Noun
editlux m (plural lux or luxes)
- lux (the derived unit of illuminance)
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editlux m (plural lucși)
Declension
editSpanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlux m (plural lux)
Further reading
edit- “lux”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editEtymology
editNoun
editlux c
- lux (singular and plural)
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