lucus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Old Latin loucos, from Proto-Italic *loukos, from Proto-Indo-European *lowk-ó-s (“open space, clearing”), which is derived from the root *lewk- (“bright”). Cognates include Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“clearing”), Sanskrit लोक (loka, “free space, world”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫuː.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈluː.kus] === Noun === lūcus m (genitive lūcī); second declension a grove sacred to a deity (poetic) a wood ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, with locative. Locative used in the sense "in the grove". ==== Derived terms ==== lūcar ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: Lluc (toponym) Corsican: lucu Gascon: luc, luga Old French: luz (Champagne) Italian: luco, -luco, Lugo Old Galician-Portuguese: Lugo (toponym)Galician: LugoPortuguese: Lugo Sardinian: luo (Barbagia) → Basque: luku → Spanish: luco === References === “lucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lucus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "lucus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “lucus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “lucus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly Lewis & Short A Latin Dictionary Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “lūcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 5: J L, page 441