The corpus record — Latin

lucinus1

lucinus1 · adj

lightbringing

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Where it lives

Carmen Saeculare 1 · 32.36/10k
Eclogarum Liber 2 · 7.3/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 2 · 2.87/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lūcīnus — Lewis & Short

lūcīnus, a, um, adj.lux,

I lightbringing, or, bringing to the light: hora, one's natal hour, Prud. adv. Symm. 2, 222. —Class. only subst.: Lūcīna, ae, f. (lit., adj.; sc. dea).

I The goddess of childbirth (because she brings to the light): Juno Lucina, Plaut. Aul. 4, 7, 11: date ignem in aram, ut venerem Lucinam meam, id. Truc. 2, 5, 23: an facient mensem luces, Lucinaque ab illis Dicar? Ov. F. 6, 39; Ter. Ad. 4, 5, 41; Cat. 35, 13; cf. Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 68.— More freq. absol.: nascenti puero Casta fave Lucina, Verg. E. 4, 8: si vocata partubus Lucina veris affuit, Hor. Epod. 5, 5: facilis, Ov. F. 2, 449.—

B Poet. transf., childbirth: Lucinam pati, Verg. G. 3, 60; cf.: Lucinae experta labores, id. ib. 4, 340: cui rugis uterum Lucina notabit, Ov. A. A. 3, 785.—

II Of Hecate, as the producer of terrific dreams and nocturnal spectres: efficiat vanos noctis Lucina timores, Tib. 3, 4, 13 Dissen ad loc.

2. lūcīnus — Lewis & Short

lūcīnus, i. q. lychnus, q. v.

3. lucinus — Walde–Hofmann

lucinus (Belege nur spät und unsicher [nicht alat. trotz Ritschl Opusc. II 477 f£]; auch lich-, Iych- [de Groot Anapt. 73]; lieinicon = Auyvikóv Peregr. Aeth.), -5 m. „Laterne“: aus gr. Abxvog (Keller Volkset. 98; rom. ist nur lücinium „Docht“, s. ellychnium S. 398, Schulze Graeca Lat. 21). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lucinus, p. 857]

In the wild

Lucina Statius, Silvae 4.8.22
Lucina Statius, Thebais 3.159
Lucina Claudian, de raptu Proserpinae 3.1.307
Lucina Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.68
Lucina Ovid, Epistulae 11.55
Lucina Claudian, In Eutropium 1.74

6 of 36 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lucinus (scan p. 857; entry #1595).

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