lucent
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Etymology [edit]
From the participle stem of Latin lucere (“to shine”).
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Adjective [edit]
lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent)
- Emitting light; shining, luminous.
- Translucent; clear, lucid.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
- her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
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Verb [edit]
lūcent
- third-person plural present active indicative of lūceō
