different between lux vs lush

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ks/

Homophone: lucks

• Rhymes: -?ks

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin l?x (“light”).; from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ?????? (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek ???? (lúk?, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit ????? (rocate), Middle Persian ????????????? (r?z, “day”) and Old English l?oht (noun) (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

• luxed up

Anagrams

• ULX, XUL

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux.

Noun

lux m

1. lux (unit of illuminance or illumination)

Further reading

• lux in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• lux in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ?????? (leukós, “white, blank, light, bright, clear”), Ancient Greek ???? (lúk?, “light, morning twilight”), Sanskrit ????? (rocate) and Old English l?oht (English light (noun)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lu?ks/, [??u?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luks/, [luks]

Noun

l?x f (genitive l?cis); third declension

1. light (of the sun, stars etc.)
2. daylight, day, moonlight
3. life
4. (figuratively) public view
5. glory, encouragement
6. enlightenment, explanation
7. splendour
8. eyesight, the eyes, luminary

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ?l?cus
• l?ce
• l?cidus
• l?cifer
• l?culentus
• l?men

Related terms

• luceo, lucere

Descendants

See also

• l?ce (“in the daytime”)
• pr?m? l?ce (“at daybreak”)
• l?ce carent?s (“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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

Noun

lux m (plural lux or luxes)

1. lux (the derived unit of illuminance)

Romanian

Etymology

From French lux

Noun

lux m (plural luc?i)

1. lux

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux. Doublet of the inherited luz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?s/, [?lu??s]

Noun

lux m (plural lux)

1. lux

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lux.

Noun

lux c

1. lux (singular and plural)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysc, lesc (“slack; limp”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German erleswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse l?skr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

Adjective

lush (comparative lusher, superlative lushest)

1. Juicy, succulent.

   Synonyms: sapful, sappy
2. (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
3. (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
4. (of food) Savoury, delicious.

5. (miscellaneous) Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
6. (Britain, slang) Beautiful, sexy.

7. (Britain, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

8. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.

Noun

lush (countable and uncountable, plural lushes)

1. (slang, derogatory) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

   Synonyms: souse, suck-pint; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

2. (slang) intoxicating liquor

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

   • 1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley

     If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it.

3. (Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.

   Synonyms: egotist, narcissist

Translations

Verb

lush (third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Uhls, Ulsh, shul

Albanian

Etymology

Check lushë.

Noun

lush m

1. male dog
2. hooligan

Related terms

• lushë