lucentia
Dictionary entries
- Entry →luceo, lucere, luxi, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shine, emit light (heavenly body); dawn; cause to shine; be clear/evident;; sparkle/glitter/shine w/reflected light; be conspicuous in merit, excel;; be bright/resplendent; be visible, show up; [lucet => it is (becoming) light];
acc. pl. pres. act. part.nom. pl. pres. act. part.voc. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...serenum. Sedebamus ergo in puppi simul universi et lucentia sidera considerabamus. Tum, qui eodem in numero Graecas..."V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...terrasque, infatigabiles siderum cursus et cta sacro fulgore lucentia nos, ut fruereris, ostendimus; has, quas subtrahis manus, haec..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Peliacas hinc denique nubes cerneret et Tempe lucentia fumo, hoc visu contenta mori. tunc tota querellis egeritur questuque..."Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...ingentem subiti cum sanguinis undam vidit et extremo lucentia pectora ferro. Ecce autem muris residens Medea paternis singula..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...auratasne trabes an Mauros undique postes an picturata lucentia marmora vena mirer, an emissas per cuncta cubilia nymphas..."