luz

Borrowed from Hebrew 'לוז'‎.

luz

1. A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
2. The almond tree

From Latin lux.

luz f

1. light

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “luz”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese luz, from Latin lūcem, accusative of lūx, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈluθ], (western) [ˈlus]

luz f (plural luces)

1. light
2. daylight

• lucecú
• luceiro

• lucir

• “luz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “luz” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “luz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “luz” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “luz” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

luz f

1. light (medium within which vision is possible)

Borrowed from German los, from Old High German lōs, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.

• IPA^(key): /lus/

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• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: luz

luz m inan (diminutive luzik)

1. a spacious place
2. (colloquial) free time, leisure
3. (colloquial) ease (freedom from effort, difficulty or hardship)

   Synonym: swoboda

4. (colloquial) margin (in machine learning: distance from the data point to a decision boundary)

   Synonym: marża

5. (colloquial, automotive) idle (running a vehicle's engine when the vehicle is not in motion)

   Synonym: bieg jałowy

• luz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• luz in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

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• Hyphenation: luz

luz f (plural luzes)

1. light (medium within which vision is possible)
   • 1915, Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), “É noite”:

     É noite. A noite é muito escura. Numa casa a uma grande distancia. Brilha a luz d'uma janella.

     It's night. The night is very dark. In a house a great distance away. The light from a window shines.

2. light; light source (object that emits light)
3. (figurative) light; enlightenment (knowledge about things as they really are)
4. (colloquial) electricity

For quotations using this term, see Citations:luz.

• à luz de
• dar à luz

• lúcido
• lucífero
• luzerna
• lúzio
• luzir

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

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈluθ/ [ˈluθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈlus/ [ˈlus]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -uθ
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: luz

luz f (plural luces)

1. light

   la luz extinguida

   the extinguished light

2. (anatomy) lumen
3. (figurative, usually in the plural) brightness, intelligence

   Vas a llegar con menos luces.

   You're going to get there with less intellect.

4. (figurative) focus, point of view, understanding

   Debes verlo bajo una nueva luz.

   You must see it from a new point of view.

5. (electricity) electric power

   Se fue la luz.

   The lights went out. (There is a blackout.)

6. (architecture) span

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