lux

See also: Lux, LUX, and Lux.

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʌks

Etymology 1

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

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

Noun

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
Translations

Etymology 2

Compare French luxer. See luxate.

Verb

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.

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lux in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Czech

Noun

lux m

  1. lux (unit of illuminance or illumination)

Further reading

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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

lūx f (genitive lūcis); third declension

  1. light (of the sun, stars etc.)
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.3
      dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux
      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

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative lūx lūcēs
genitive lūcis lūcum
dative lūcī lūcibus
accusative lūcem lūcēs
ablative lūce lūcibus
vocative lūx lūcēs

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

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

References

  • 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

Portuguese

Noun

lux m (plural lux or luxes)

  1. lux (the derived unit of illuminance)

Spanish

Noun

lux m (plural lux)

  1. lux

Swedish

Noun

lux c

  1. lux (singular and plural)
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