lux

• IPA^(key): /lʌks/

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Homophone: lucks

• 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).

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

• ULX, 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 Proto-Indo-European *léwks. 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/, [ɫ̪uːks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luks/, [luks]

lūx f (genitive lūcis); third declension

1. light (of the sun, stars etc.)

   Synonym: lūmen

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis 1:3:

     dīxitque Deus fīat lūx et facta est lūx

     And God said: Let there be light. And there was light.

2. daylight, day, moonlight
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.113-116:

     huic aliquis iuvenum dīxisset amantia verba,
     reddēbat tālēs prōtinus illa sonōs:
     ‘haec loca lūcīs habent nimis et cum lūce pudōris;
     sī sēcrēta magis dūcis in antra, sequor.’

     If ever some young man spoke to this [nymph] the words of love, immediately she replied with statements such as: “These places have too much of daylight and, with the light, [too much] of shame; if you lead to more secluded caves, I [will] follow [you].”
     (A clever ruse used by Cardea; along the journey to the cave, she would then hide from her unsuspecting suitor.)

   Synonym: aurōra

   prima luce ― at daybreak

   ad lucem ― at dawn

3. life

   Synonym: vīta

4. (figuratively) public view
5. glory, encouragement
6. enlightenment, explanation
7. splendour
8. eyesight, the eyes, luminary

Third-declension noun.

• ēlūcus
• lūce (“in the daytime”)
• lūce carentēs (“the dead”)
• lūcidus
• lūcifer
• lūculentus
• prīmā lūce (“at daybreak”)

• luceo, lucere
• lūmen

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
    
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

• Hyphenation: lux

lux m (plural lux or luxes)

1. lux (the derived unit of illuminance)

From French lux.

lux m (plural lucși)

1. lux

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluɡs/ [ˈluɣ̞s]
• Rhymes: -uɡs
• Syllabification: lux

lux m (plural lux)

1. lux

• “lux”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Latin lux.

lux c

1. lux (singular and plural)