luce

From Old French lus, luis, from Latin lūcius.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /luːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

luce (plural luces)

1. The pike, Esox lucius, when fully grown.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     As wee hunt after beasts, so Tygers and Lyons hunt after men, and have a like exercise one upon another: Hounds over the Hare; the Pike or Luce over the Tench […].

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

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From Latin lūcem, accusative form of lūx (“light”), from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“bright; white”). Doublet of the borrowed lux.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlut͡ʃe/, [ˈl̺uː.t͡ʃe]

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• Hyphenation: lù‧ce

luce f (plural luci)

1. light (visible electromagnetic wave; electrical device providing light)
2. clearance
3. span (engineering)

• dare alla luce, mettere in buona luce, mettere in cattiva luce, portare alla luce, venire alla luce, alla luce di
• lucere
• lucerna
• lucido
• Lucifero
• lucifero
• velocità della luce
• luci della ribalta, a luci rosse, luce di arresto, luce di posizione

luce

1. third-person singular present indicative of lucere

lūce f

1. ablative singular of lux

lūcē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lūceō

• luce in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• luce in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• luce in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

luce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of lucir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of lucir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of lucir.