different between lux vs sophisticate

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

Etymology

attested about 1400 in the sense "make impure by admixture", from Medieval Latin sophisticatus, past participle of sophisticare (see sophistication). From about 1600 as "corrupt, delude by sophistry"; from 1796 as "deprive of simplicity". Related: sophisticated, sophisticating. As a noun meaning "sophisticated person" from 1921.

Pronunciation

• Noun and adjective:
  • IPA^(key): [s??f?st?k?t]
• Verb:
  • IPA^(key): [s??f?st?ke?t]

Noun

sophisticate (plural sophisticates)

1. A worldly-wise person.
   • 2001, SpongeBob SquarePants, episode Sailor Mouth, written by Walt Dohrn, Paul Tibbitt, and Merriwether Williams

     Patrick: Because classy sophisticates like us should not stain our lips with cursing.

     SpongeBob: Yea verily!

Verb

sophisticate (third-person singular simple present sophisticates, present participle sophisticating, simple past and past participle sophisticated)

1. (transitive) To make less natural or innocent.
   • 1956–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 38:

     Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state].

2. To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 151:

     The benevolence of her heart taught her, in this instance, to sophisticate.

   • 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society

     to sophisticate the understanding

   • December 1873, Matthew Arnold, "Bishop Butler and the Zeit-Geist" in The Contemporary Review Volume 27

     Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine.

3. (transitive) To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
   • 1639, James Howell, "To my Lord Clifford, from Edenburgh" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     to mingle or sophisticate any Wine here

   • 1678, John Dryden, Epilogue to Mithridates, King of Pontus by Nathaniel Lee

     They purchase but sophisticated ware.

4. (transitive) To make more complex or refined.

Translations

Adjective

sophisticate (comparative more sophisticate, superlative most sophisticate)

1. Not genuine; not pure; adulterated.