luire

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French luire, a variant of luisir (the normal result in Old French) formed through analogy through its future forms (compare also nuire, plaire, taire), from Vulgar Latin *lūcīre, from Latin lūcēre, present active infinitive of lūceō, from Proto-Italic *loukēō, from the root of lūx (“light”) or from Proto-Indo-European *lowk-eyo-, a verb that is derived from *lewk-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɥiʁ/

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Verb

luire

1. (intransitive) to shine; to glimmer

Conjugation

Conjugation of luire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	luire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	luisant /lɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lui /lɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	luis /lɥi/	luis /lɥi/	luit /lɥi/	luisons /lɥi.zɔ̃/	luisez /lɥi.ze/	luisent /lɥiz/
	imperfect	luisais /lɥi.zɛ/	luisais /lɥi.zɛ/	luisait /lɥi.zɛ/	luisions /lɥi.zjɔ̃/	luisiez /lɥi.zje/	luisaient /lɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	luis or luisis /lɥi/ or /lɥi.zi/	luis or luisis /lɥi/ or /lɥi.zi/	luit /lɥi/	luîmes or luisîmes /lɥim/ or /lɥi.zim/	luîtes or luisîtes /lɥit/ or /lɥi.zit/	luirent or luisirent /lɥiʁ/ or /lɥi.ziʁ/
	future	luirai /lɥi.ʁe/	luiras /lɥi.ʁa/	luira /lɥi.ʁa/	luirons /lɥi.ʁɔ̃/	luirez /lɥi.ʁe/	luiront /lɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	luirais /lɥi.ʁɛ/	luirais /lɥi.ʁɛ/	luirait /lɥi.ʁɛ/	luirions /lɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	luiriez /lɥi.ʁje/	luiraient /lɥi.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	luise /lɥiz/	luises /lɥiz/	luise /lɥiz/	luisions /lɥi.zjɔ̃/	luisiez /lɥi.zje/	luisent /lɥiz/
	imperfect2	luisisse /lɥi.zis/	luisisses /lɥi.zis/	luisît /lɥi.zi/	luisissions /lɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	luisissiez /lɥi.zi.sje/	luisissent /lɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	luis /lɥi/	—	luisons /lɥi.zɔ̃/	luisez /lɥi.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• lueur
• luisant
• reluire
• traluire

Further reading

• “luire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Verb

luire

1. alternative infinitive of luisir.

Related terms

• reluire