luctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of lūgeō.

Participle

lūctus (feminine lūcta, neuter lūctum); first/second-declension participle

1. mourned, grieved, lamented

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lūctus	lūcta	lūctum		lūctī	lūctae	lūcta
Genitive	lūctī	lūctae	lūctī		lūctōrum	lūctārum	lūctōrum
Dative	lūctō		lūctō		lūctīs
Accusative	lūctum	lūctam	lūctum		lūctōs	lūctās	lūcta
Ablative	lūctō	lūctā	lūctō		lūctīs
Vocative	lūcte	lūcta	lūctum		lūctī	lūctae	lūcta

Noun

lūctus m (genitive lūctūs); fourth declension

1. grief, sorrow, mourning

   Synonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, dēsīderium

   Antonyms: gaudium, dēlectātiō, lascīvia, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

2. lamentation

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lūctus	lūctūs
Genitive	lūctūs	lūctuum
Dative	lūctuī	lūctibus
Accusative	lūctum	lūctūs
Ablative	lūctū	lūctibus
Vocative	lūctus	lūctūs

Descendants

• Asturian: llutu
• Italian: lutto
• Old Galician-Portuguese: luito
  • Galician: loito
  • Portuguese: luto
• Spanish: luto

References

• “luctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• luctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to suffer affliction: in luctu esse (Sest. 14. 32)
    
  • some one's death has plunged me in grief: mors alicuius luctum mihi attulit
    
  • to be overwhelmed by a great affliction: in maximos luctus incidere
    
  • to undergo severe trouble, trials: magnum luctum haurire (without ex-)
    
  • to feel sorrow about a thing: luctum percipere ex aliqua re
    
  • to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere
    
  • to lay aside one's grief: luctum deponere (Phil. 14. 13. 34)
    
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
    
• “luctus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray