lux

• Rhymes: -ʌks

Borrowed from Latin lūx (“light”).; from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate), Middle Persian 𐭩𐭥𐭬‎ (rōz, “day”) and Old English lēoht (noun) (English light).

The archaic form in Latin is leuks, and later louks.

lux (plural lux or luxes)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of illuminance or illumination; one lumen per square metre. Symbol: lx

Compare French luxer. See luxate.

lux (third-person singular simple present luxes, present participle luxing, simple past and past participle luxed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To put out of joint; to luxate.

• luxed up

• XUL

Borrowed from Latin lux.

lux m

1. lux (unit of illuminance or illumination)

• lux in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lux in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek λύκη (lúkē, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit रोचते (rocate) and Old English lēoht (English light (noun)).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luːks/, [ɫuːks]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luks/

lūx f (genitive lūcis); third declension

1. light (of the sun, stars etc.)
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.3:

     dīxitque Deus fīat lūx et facta est lūx

     And God said: Be light made. And light was made.

2. daylight, day, moonlight
3. life
4. (figuratively) public view
5. glory, encouragement
6. enlightenment, explanation
7. splendour
8. eyesight, the eyes, luminary

Third-declension noun.

• ēlūcus.
• lūce
• lūcidus
• lūcifer
• lūculentus
• lūmen

• luceo, lucere

• lūce (“in the daytime”)
• prīmā lūce (“at daybreak”)
• lūce carentēs (“the dead”)

• lux in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lux in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lux in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • before daybreak: ante lucem
    
  • the day is already far advanced: multus dies or multa lux est
    
  • to see the light, come into the world: in lucem edi
    
  • those to whom we owe our being: ei, propter quos hanc lucem aspeximus
    
  • to sleep on into the morning: in lucem dormire
    
  • to shun publicity: publico carere, forum ac lucem fugere
    
  • (ambiguous) at daybreak: prima luce
    
  • (ambiguous) in full daylight: luce (luci)
    
  • (ambiguous) to enjoy the privilege of living; to be alive: vita or hac luce frui
    
  • (ambiguous) to shun publicity: forensi luce carere
    
  • (ambiguous) this is as clear as daylight: hoc est luce (sole ipso) clarius
    

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

lux m (plural lux or luxes)

1. lux (the derived unit of illuminance)

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

• IPA^(key): /luks/

lux m (plural lux)

1. lux

Borrowed from Latin lux.

lux c

1. lux (singular and plural)