colluceo

Forms

collūceō (present infinitive collūcēre, perfect active collūxī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^[1] It is also spelled conlūceō.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + lūceō (“to shine”).^[2][1][4] De Vaan traces lūceō to Proto-Italic *l(o)ukē- (“to be light”) and Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light”), with a full grade that he finds unexpected in a stative verb.^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL dates it from Cicero.^[4] The OLD's first quotation is from Cicero's translation of Aratus, of the bright Scorpion.^[2][6]

Semantic evolution

Of sources of light it is to shine on every side: Cicero writes of the sun that lights the world far and wide.^[3] It is also to reflect light, be lit up, as the sea where the sun strikes it in Cicero, and to be bright with beautiful things: Cicero tells Verres he saw everything glittering with his thefts.^[2] Silius has an oak lit up by fire.^[2] Lewis & Short note that it is classical in prose and verse but not in Horace.^[3] Church Latin glosses it to burn, shine on all sides.^[7]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero of a constellation, of the sea in the sun and of a house glittering with stolen goods.^[2][3][6]
• 25–101 AD – Silius of an oak lit up by fire.^[2][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To give out light on every side, shine brightly; to light up with fire.^[2][3][1][7]
2. To reflect light, be illuminated, lit up.^[2][3][1]
3. To be bright or resplendent, glitter.^[2][1]

Word family

• collūcēsco

Related words

• lūceō
• lūx

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e f Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
6. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson