Luca

See also: luca, LUCA, and Lucca

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian Luca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈluːkə/

Proper noun

Luca

  1. A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.

Noun

Luca (plural Lucas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of LUCA
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      What’s more, every living organism is ultimately descended from a single ancestral population: the Last Universal Common Ancestor (Luca), which lived over 3.5 billion years ago when the planet was newly formed.

Anagrams

Aromanian

Proper noun

Luca m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to the English-language Luke or Lucas

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Luca.

Pronunciation
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Proper noun

Luca

  1. a male given name from Italian, of early 2000's origin

Italian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlu.ka/
  • Rhymes: -uka
  • Hyphenation: Lù‧ca

Proper noun

Luca m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Luke or Lucas
  2. Luke (biblical character)
  3. the Gospel of Luke

Descendants
  • English: Luca
  • German: Luca

See also

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from Celtic-Ancient Ligurian *luk- (“swampy place”).[1][2] Or, possibly instead from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”).[3]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lūca f sg (genitive Lūcae); first declension

  1. A city in Etruria; site of modern-day Lucca
Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Lūca
Genitive Lūcae
Dative Lūcae
Accusative Lūcam
Ablative Lūcā
Vocative Lūca
Locative Lūcae
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Lūcās.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lūcā m

  1. ablative/vocative of Lūcās

References
  • “Luca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Luca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  1. UTET
  2. Haegen, Anne Mueller von der; Strasser, Ruth F. (2013). "Lucca". Art & Architecture: Tuscany. Potsdam: H.F.Ullmann Publishing. p. 57.
  3. Villar: Villar, F. La complessità dei livelli di stratificazione indoeuropea nell'Europa occidentale, in Bocchi, G., Ceruti, M. (eds.), Le radici prime dell'Europa, Milano 2001.

Romanian

Pronunciation
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Proper noun

Luca m (genitive/dative lui Luca)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to the English-language Luke or Lucas

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Italian Luca, from Latin Lucas. Cognate with English Luke.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Luca

  1. (Roman Catholicism) Luke
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