luxit
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];; mourn, grieve (over); bewail, lament; be in mourning;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd - Entry →lucesco, lucescere, luxi, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
begin to shine; grow light (of the day), dawn; (usu. IMPERS);; it grows light, it is getting light, dawn is coming/breaking, day is breaking;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fleverunt silvae, positis te frondibus arbor tonsa comas luxit; lacrimis quoque flumina dicunt increvisse suis, obstrusaque carbasa pullo..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...durius consulere cogantur. Facta potestate discedit. Caesar, ubi luxit, omnes senatores senatorumque liberos, tribunos militum equitesque Romanos..."
