The corpus record — Latin

lucus

lucus · m

a wood, grove

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 2 · 27.14/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 3 · 23.13/10k
Precationes 1 · 21.6/10k
Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Cathemerina 9 · 12.23/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 11.48/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 6 · 10.88/10k
Hercules 8 · 10.51/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 2 · 9.3/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 7 · 9.23/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 2 · 9.14/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 6 · 8.6/10k

Densest 12 of 134 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. lūcus — Lewis & Short

lūcus, i, m.luceo, the shining, i. e. open place in the wood,

I a wood, grove, or thicket of trees sacred to a deity.

I Lit.: Silani lucus extra murumst est avius crebro salicto oppletus, Plaut. Aul. 4, 6, 8: lucus est arborum multitudo cum religione, nemus vero composita multitudo arborum, silva diffusa et inculta, Serv. Verg. A. 1, 310; cf. id. ib. 1, 441; 11, 316: vos jam, Albani tumuli atque luci, imploro, Cic. Mil. 31, 85: lucus frequenti silvā septus, Liv. 24, 3: nemora in domibus sacros imitantia lucos, Tib. 3, 3, 15: virtutem verba putas et Lucum ligna, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 31: Ennium sicut sacros vetustate lucos adoremus, Quint. 10, 1, 88: nemoris sacri lucos tenere, Sen. Herc. Oet. 956.—

II Transf.

A In gen., a wood (poet.): aut quos Oceano propior gerit India lucos, Verg. G. 2, 122: alto in luco, id. A. 11, 456.—

B Wood: nec quicquam positum sine luco, auro, ebore, argento, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Charis. p. 179 P.

2. Lūcus — Lewis & Short

Lūcus, i, m.1. lucus, the name of several cities in Gaul and Spain, of which the most important was

I Lucus, a city of the Vocontii, also called Lucus Augusti, now Lucim, Tac. H. 1, 66; Plin. 3, 4, 5, § 37.

3. lūcus — Lewis & Short

lūcus, ūs, m., i. q. lux,

I light: cum primo lucu, at daybreak, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 56 (dub.; Fleck. and Ussing, luci): noctu lucuque, Varr. L. L. 5, 19, § 99 Müll. (ex conj.; al. noctulucus).

In the wild

lucis Prudentius, Cathemerina 11.111
lucique Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.12.p15
lucoque Silius Italicus, Punica 7.462
lucis Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 6.733
luco Silius Italicus, Punica 6.173
lucos Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p14

6 of 668 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.