luscus Latin · revision 33670

+ {{infobox|confidence=disputed|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *luk-sko-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈɫʊs.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈlus.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''luscus''' (feminine lusca, neuter luscum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is perhaps [[inh|itc-pro|*luk-sko-|t=with partial sight]],^(de Vaan 2008)^(Etymonline) which Fruyt connects with the root of [[ine-pro|*leuk-|t=light]]; de Vaan compares a Celtic verb “to see”.^(de Vaan 2008) Walde–Hofmann instead start from ⟨*nuscus⟩, with the initial changed under the influence of [[m|la|lūx|t=light]], and the OLD follows this, comparing [[m|la|nuscitiō|t=night-blindness]];^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) de Vaan finds the Baltic words they compare a poor match in meaning.^(de Vaan 2008) Köbler also compares a root meaning “dark”,^(Köbler 2010) and the TLL calls the origin uncertain.^(TLL) Isidore explains it as one who sees light only in part.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whom one man threatens to gouge out the other's eye if he says another word, and gets the reply “then I'll say it as a one-eyed man”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means blind in one eye, one-eyed.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro reports the argument that, although it is like [[stultus]], it has no comparative or superlative.^(TLL) Wiktionary also gives “with one eye shut, as when taking aim”.^(Wiktionary) Fronto uses it of obscure speech.^(OLD 2012) It was a Roman cognomen.^(Wiktionary) Church Latin has it as one-eyed.^(Stelten 1995) Its feminine ''lusca'' passed through Old French into French [[m|fr|louche|t=squinting]], which gave English [[m|en|louche]] “disreputable” (1819).^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of a one-eyed man.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, on its lack of degrees of comparison.^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 100–170 AD – Fronto, of obscure speech.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1819 – English [[m|en|louche]], through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Blind in one eye, [[m|en|one-eyed]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # With one eye shut, as when taking [[m|en|aim]].^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of speech, obscure.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[luscinius]]

+ * [[luscinus]]

+ * [[lusciōsus]]

+ * [[luscītiō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lūx]]

+ * [[luscinia]]

+ * [[luscītiōsus]]

+ * [[en|louche]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}