luctus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of lūgeō.
Participle
[edit]lūctus (feminine lūcta, neuter lūctum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | lūctus | lūcta | lūctum | lūctī | lūctae | lūcta | |
| genitive | lūctī | lūctae | lūctī | lūctōrum | lūctārum | lūctōrum | |
| dative | lūctō | lūctae | lūctō | lūctīs | |||
| accusative | lūctum | lūctam | lūctum | lūctōs | lūctās | lūcta | |
| ablative | lūctō | lūctā | lūctō | lūctīs | |||
| vocative | lūcte | lūcta | lūctum | lūctī | lūctae | lūcta | |
Noun
[edit]lūctus m (genitive lūctūs); fourth declension
- grief, sorrow, mourning
- Synonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, dēsīderium
- Antonyms: gaudium, dēlectātiō, lascīvia, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās
- lamentation
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lūctus | lūctūs |
| genitive | lūctūs | lūctuum |
| dative | lūctuī | lūctibus |
| accusative | lūctum | lūctūs |
| ablative | lūctū | lūctibus |
| vocative | lūctus | lūctūs |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “luctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “luctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- luctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to suffer affliction: in luctu esse (Sest. 14. 32)
- some one's death has plunged me in grief: mors alicuius luctum mihi attulit
- to be overwhelmed by a great affliction: in maximos luctus incidere
- to undergo severe trouble, trials: magnum luctum haurire (without ex-)
- to feel sorrow about a thing: luctum percipere ex aliqua re
- to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere
- to lay aside one's grief: luctum deponere (Phil. 14. 13. 34)
- time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
- to suffer affliction: in luctu esse (Sest. 14. 32)
- “luctus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray