lucuna
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /luˈkuː.na/, [ɫ̪ʊˈkuːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /luˈku.na/, [luˈkuːnä]
Noun
lucūna f (genitive lucūnae); first declension
- Alternative form of lacūna.
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.552:
- Fit quoque, ubi in magnas aquae vastasque lucunas gleba vetustate e terra provolvitur ingens, […]
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.1031:
- […], viam qui quondam per mare magnum stravit iterque dedit legionibus ire per altum ac pedibus salsas docuit super ire lucunas et contempsit equis insultans murmura ponti, […]
Inflection
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lucūna | lucūnae |
| Genitive | lucūnae | lucūnārum |
| Dative | lucūnae | lucūnīs |
| Accusative | lucūnam | lucūnās |
| Ablative | lucūnā | lucūnīs |
| Vocative | lucūna | lucūnae |
References
- “lucuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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