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lux
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)
- 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)
- (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
- 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
- light (of the sun, stars etc.)
- daylight, day, moonlight
- life
- (figuratively) public view
- glory, encouragement
- enlightenment, explanation
- splendour
- 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)
- lux (the derived unit of illuminance)
Romanian
Etymology
From French lux
Noun
lux m (plural luc?i)
- 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)
- lux
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lux.
Noun
lux c
- lux (singular and plural)
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qux
English
Noun
qux (uncountable)
- (computing) Alternative form of quux
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