lucoare

Forms

lucoare f (plural lucori)^[1]

Etymology

It is inherited from Vulgar Latin *lūcōrem (“brightness”), from Latin lūceō (“to shine”).^[2][1][3][4] DEX gives the Latin noun as lucor.^[5] DELI records the Latin noun as a late word, from the 6th century.^[6]

The Romance cognates are Italian lucore, Sardinian lugore, French lueur, Occitan lugor and Catalan llugor.^[2][7][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in the Codicele Voronețean, in the Acts of the Apostles (26:13): „mai vârtos de lucoarea soarelui” “brighter than the light of the sun”.^[4][3] The psalters of the 1570s have it too: „veselescu-se în lucoare” “they rejoice in brightness”.^[8][9]

Semantic evolution

Dosoftei used the word often, and he formed strălucoare on the model of străluci.^[3][2][10] After the 17th century it became rare and literary.^[4][11] Nineteenth-century writers revived it with the sense “faint glimmer” after French lueur, and Sadoveanu and Coșbuc used it in its old sense.^[3][12]

Timeline

• c. 1563–1583 – lucoarea “the light” in the Codicele Voronețean.^[4][3]
• 1570 – lucoare in Coresi's psalter.^[8]
• 1673 – frequent in Dosoftei's verse psalter and in an Akathist.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. (obsolete, literary) light, brightness, radiance.^[5][9][1]
2. (obsolete, figurative) divine grace; what brings clarity to the mind.^[9]
3. (literary) a faint glimmer.^[9][3]

Word family

• strălucoare

Related words

• luci
• lumină

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c 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. lucoare
3. ^ a b c d e f g Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. lucoare
4. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. lucoare
5. ^ a b DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 602
6. ^ Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
7. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1935), Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., Heidelberg: Winter, p. 5144
8. ^ a b Gînsac, Ana-Maria; Ungureanu, Mădălina; Moruz, Alexandru et al., roPsalt: Re-evaluating the Sixteenth Century Romanian Psalters (aligned corpus), Iași: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, https://scriptadacoromanica.ro, p. Ps 64:11
9. ^ a b c d Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 1399
10. ^ Costinescu, Mariana; Georgescu, Magdalena; Zgraon, Florentina (1987), Dicționarul limbii române literare vechi (1640–1780): termeni regionali, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, p. 1, 171
11. ^ Scriban, August (1939), Dicționaru limbii românești (etimologii, înțelesuri, exemple, citațiuni, arhaizme, neologizme, provincializme), Iași: Presa Bună, p. 758
12. ^ Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 787