Luca

See also: luca, LUCA, and Lucca

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian Luca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːkə/

Proper noun

Luca

1. A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.

Etymology 2

Noun

Luca (plural Lucas)

1. Alternative letter-case form of LUCA
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     What’s more, every living organism is ultimately descended from a single ancestral population: the Last Universal Common Ancestor (Luca), which lived over 3.5 billion years ago when the planet was newly formed.

Anagrams

• ACLU, UCLA, caul

Aromanian

Proper noun

Luca m

1. a male given name, equivalent to the English-language Luke or Lucas

German

Alternative forms

• Luka

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Luca.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Luca

1. a male given name from Italian, of early 2000's origin

Italian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ka/
• Rhymes: -uka
• Hyphenation: Lù‧ca

Proper noun

Luca m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Luke or Lucas
2. Luke (biblical character)
3. the Gospel of Luke

Descendants

• English: Luca
• German: Luca

See also

• Lucca

Latin

Etymology 1

Possibly from Celtic-Ancient Ligurian *luk- (“swampy place”). Or, possibly instead from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.ka/, [ˈɫ̪uːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ka/, [ˈluːkä]

Proper noun

Lūca f sg (genitive Lūcae); first declension

1. A city in Etruria; site of modern-day Lucca

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Lūca
Genitive	Lūcae
Dative	Lūcae
Accusative	Lūcam
Ablative	Lūcā
Vocative	Lūca
Locative	Lūcae

Derived terms

• Lūca bōs
• Lūcānia
• Lūcānus
• Lūcensis

Etymology 2

From Lūcās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.kaː/, [ˈɫ̪uːkäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ka/, [ˈluːkä]

Proper noun

Lūcā m

1. ablative/vocative of Lūcās

References

• “Luca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Luca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Luca m (genitive/dative lui Luca)

1. a male given name, equivalent to the English-language Luke or Lucas

Vietnamese

Proper noun

Luca

1. Alternative spelling of Lu-ca (“Luke”)