luscus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *lukskos, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Compare with male lūminātus (“short-sighted”), from the same root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.kus/, [ˈɫ̪ʊs̠kʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlus.kus/, [ˈluskus]

Adjective

luscus (feminine lusca, neuter luscum); first/second-declension adjective

1. one-eyed
2. with one eye shut (i.e. taking aim)
3. half blind

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	luscus	lusca	luscum		luscī	luscae	lusca
Genitive	luscī	luscae	luscī		luscōrum	luscārum	luscōrum
Dative	luscō		luscō		luscīs
Accusative	luscum	luscam	luscum		luscōs	luscās	lusca
Ablative	luscō	luscā	luscō		luscīs
Vocative	lusce	lusca	luscum		luscī	luscae	lusca

Descendants

• Catalan: llosc
• Galician: losco
• Italian: losco
• Old French: lois, lousche
  • French: louche
    • → English: louche
    • → Dutch: louche
• Portuguese: lusco
• Spanish: lusco

References

• “luscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• luscus 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)
• luscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “luscus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray