Lucius

From Latin Lūcius, a common Roman praenomen deriving from lux (“light”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːsɪəs/, /ˈluːʃəs/

Lucius

1. (rare) A male given name from Latin.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:1:

     Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

   • 2012, Dan Hassler-Forest, Capitalist Superheroes: Caped Crusaders in the Neoliberal Age, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

     In one of the film's most discussed scenes, Bruce Wayne reveals to Lucius Fox (played by Morgan Freeman) that he has modified his “sonar cell phone technology” to create a device that will allow him to listen in on all of Gotham City[...]

• Loosh (diminutive)
• Lucian
• Lucia
• Lucy

• (praenominal abbreviation): L.

From Proto-Italic *Loukjos, related to lux (“light”), stem lūc-. Compare Etruscan 𐌋𐌖𐌂𐌉 (Luci, “a male praenomen”) and Etruscan 𐌋𐌖𐌗𐌉 (Luχi).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫuː.ki.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.t͡ʃi.us]

Lūcius m (genitive Lūciī or Lūcī, feminine Lūcia); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Lūcia f (praenomen)
• Lūcīpor (“slave of Lucius”)

• English: Lucius
• Italian: Lucio
• Ancient Greek: Λούκιος (Loúkios), Λεύκιος (Leúkios)
• Portuguese: Lúcio
• Spanish: Lucio

• “Lūcĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lucius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.