Lucy
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Medieval English vernacular form of Lucia, name of a Sicilian martyr, from the Latin feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lucius, from lux "light".
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Lucy
- A female given name.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: V:iv:9:
- Then did my younger brother Amidas / Love that same other Damzell, Lucy bright,/ To whom but little dowre allotted was;/ Her vertue was the dowre, that did delight.
- 1798 William Wordsworth: She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways:
- She lived unknown, and few would know / When Lucy ceased to be;/ But she is in her grave, and, oh,/ The difference to me!
- 1830 Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
- But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love! Is not Lucy a pretty soubrette, a wearer of cast gowns and cast smiles, smart and coquettish!
- 2009 Dora Raymond, Aunt Dora's Legacy, AuthorHouse, ISBN 1438980663, page 19 ( Lucy Who ):
- Now we'll just use a fiction name / Lucy that sounds nice / A name we can remember / Without repeating twice / / My name is so old fashioned / And they are very few / But some will have a puzzled look / And whisper Lucy who?
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: V:iv:9:
- A surname derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 1: Act IV, Scene IV:
- Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me / Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 1: Act IV, Scene IV:
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female given name
