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transluceo

transluceo · v. n

To shine across

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What it meant

trans-lūcĕo — Lewis & Short

trans-lūcĕo or trālūcĕo, ēre, v. n. *

I To shine across: speculo in speculum translucet imago, Lucr. 4, 332. —
II To shine through, show through; to let shine through, to be transparent or translucent: ille ... In liquidis translucet aquis, Ov. M. 4, 354: selenitis ex candido translucet melleo fulgore, Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 181: per raritatem (pontium) translucentibus fluviis, id. 8, 43, 68, § 169: translucens fissura, id. 17, 14, 24, § 104; Col. 4, 29, 9.

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