colluceo Latin · revision 32867

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *leuk-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [kɔlˈluː.ke.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [kolˈluː.t͡ʃe.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''collūceō''' (present infinitive collūcēre, perfect active collūxī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''conlūceō''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|con-|lūceō|t2=to shine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|lūceō]] to [[itc-pro|*l(o)ukē-|t=to be light]] and [[ine-pro|*leuk-|t=light]], with a full grade that he finds unexpected in a stative verb.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL dates it from Cicero.^(TLL) The OLD's first quotation is from Cicero's translation of Aratus, of the bright Scorpion.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==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.^(Lewis & Short 1879) 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.^(OLD 2012) Silius has an oak lit up by fire.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is classical in prose and verse but not in Horace.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it to burn, shine on all sides.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of a constellation, of the sea in the sun and of a house glittering with stolen goods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius of an oak lit up by fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To give out light on every side, shine brightly; to light up with fire.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To reflect light, be [[m|en|illuminated]], lit up.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To be bright or [[m|en|resplendent]], [[m|en|glitter]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[collūcēsco]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lūceō]]

+ * [[lux|alt=lūx]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}