luced

Forms

luced m or n (feminine singular lucedă, masculine plural lucezi, feminine/neuter plural lucede)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Latin lūcidus (“bright, shining”), as Bogrea proposed.^{[2][3][4][1][5]} The Latin adjective is formed on lūceō (“to shine”) with -idus.^[1][6] The REW sets it beside Spanish lucio and Portuguese luzio.^[5] The neologism lucid, from French, is its doublet.^[1][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Ion Budai-Deleanu's Țiganiada, of the beloved: „mai lucedă dă steaua dă sară” “brighter than the evening star”.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

The word was always rare: Ciorănescu notes that the dictionaries of his time did not list it.^[2] The DLR has it in the sense “bright, shining” from Budai-Deleanu and Anton Pann („mărgăritarul luced” “the shining pearl”); in dialect material a calf's coat is „luced” so that it gleams.^[3] MDA2 labels it obsolete.^[4]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (obsolete, regional) bright, luminous.^[3][4][1]
2. (obsolete) glossy, shiny.^[3][4]
3. (obsolete, figurative) radiant, splendid.^[4]

Related words

• luci
• lucid
• Latin lūcidus

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. luced
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. luced
4. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1398
5. ^ a b Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 5140
6. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
7. ^ Ciorănescu, Alexandru (1958–1966), Diccionario etimológico rumano, La Laguna: Universidad de La Laguna (Romanian ed.: Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române, București: Saeculum, 2001), p. s.v. luci