lucidus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti

Proto-Italic *loukeō

Proto-Indo-European *lewk-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *lukéh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *l(o)ukēō?

Latin lūceō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Proto-Italic *-iðos

Latin -idus

Latin lūcidus

From lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫuː.kɪ.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.t͡ʃi.dus]

Adjective

lūcidus (feminine lūcida, neuter lūcidum, comparative lūcidior, superlative lūcidissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. clear, bright, shining, full of light

   Synonym: clārus

   Antonyms: obscūrus, opācus

2. (figuratively) clear, perspicuous, lucid

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lūcidus	lūcida	lūcidum		lūcidī	lūcidae	lūcida
genitive	lūcidī	lūcidae	lūcidī		lūcidōrum	lūcidārum	lūcidōrum
dative	lūcidō	lūcidae	lūcidō		lūcidīs
accusative	lūcidum	lūcidam	lūcidum		lūcidōs	lūcidās	lūcida
ablative	lūcidō	lūcidā	lūcidō		lūcidīs
vocative	lūcide	lūcida	lūcidum		lūcidī	lūcidae	lūcida

Derived terms

• dilūcidē
• dīlūcidus
• ēlūcidō
• lūcidē
• lūciditās
• pellūcidus
• trānslūcidus

Translingual

• Chaetoderma lucidum
• Hieracium lucidum
• Ligustrum lucidum
• Mecodema lucidum
• Theridiosoma lucidum
• Vaccinium lucidum

Related terms

• lūcēns
• lūceō
• lūcerna

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Romanian: luced
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: lucido
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: lùcid
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: êluido (from *exlūcidus)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: lúzio
  • Spanish: lucio

Borrowings:

• → Catalan: lúcid
• → English: lucid
• → Galician: lúcido
• → German: luzid
• → French: lucide
• → Portuguese: lúcido
• → Romanian: lucid
• → Spanish: lúcido

References

• “lucidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lucidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lucidus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.