lucent
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin lūcentem, the present participle of lūcēre (“to shine”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editlucent (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.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editEmitting 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
editVerb
editlūcent
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