Lucius

See also: lucius

English

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

Lucius

(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[...]

male given name

Esperanto: Lucio
Etruscan: 𐌋𐌖𐌂𐌉 m (Luci), 𐌋𐌖𐌗𐌉 m (Luχi), 𐌋𐌖𐌅𐌂𐌄 m (Luvce), 𐌋𐌖 (Lu) (abbreviation), 𐌋𐌅 (Lv) (abbreviation)
Galician: Lucio (gl)
Greek: Λούκιος (el) m (Loúkios)
Ancient: Λούκιος m (Loúkios)
Hungarian: Luciusz
Italian: Lucio (it)
Latin: Lucius
Polish: Lucjusz (pl) m
Portuguese: Lúcio (pt) m
Spanish: Lucio (es) m
Vietnamese: Luciô

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

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

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

“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.