lucent
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lūcentem, the present participle of lūcēre (“to shine”).
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Adjective edit
lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent)
- Emitting light; shining, luminous.
- 1922 (date written; published 1926), T[homas] E[dward] Lawrence, “Book IV: Extending to Akaba. Chapter XXXIX.”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1937, →OCLC, page 228:
- Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes.
- Translucent; clear, lucid.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, chapter I, in In the “Stranger People’s” Country, New York: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 16:
- […] her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.
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Translations edit
Emitting light; shining, luminous
Translucent; clear
Further reading edit
- “lucent”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “lucent”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin edit
Verb edit
lūcent