colluceo

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti
Proto-Italic *loukeō
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *lukéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *l(o)ukēō?
Latin lūceō
Latin collūceō

    From con- + lūceō (“shine”).

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    collūceō (present infinitive collūcēre, perfect active collūxī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem (intransitive)

    1. to give out light on every side; to be bright, lit up or illuminated, shine brightly
      • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 45:
        candet ebur soliis, collucent pocula mensae
        • 1913 translation by F. W. Cornish, J. P. Postgate, and J. W. Mackail
          White gleams the ivory of the thrones, bright are the cups on the table
      • c. 83 CE – 96 CE, Silius Italicus, Punica 9.607–608:
        subitoque per alta collucet iuga dissultans Vulcanius ardor
        Suddnely, flame of Vulcan, bursting asunder, shines throughout the lofty peaks
    2. to be resplendent, glitter, glisten
      • 70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.1.58:
        vidi collucere omnia furtis tuis
        • 1928 translation by L. H. G. Greenwood
          I looked at the brilliant show that was made by your thefts
          (literally, “I saw all to shine on account of your thefts”)
      • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.363:
        quia purpureis collucent floribus agri
        because the fields glow with purple flowers

    Conjugation

       Conjugation of collūceō (second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)
    indicative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present collūceō collūcēs collūcet collūcēmus collūcētis collūcent
    imperfect collūcēbam collūcēbās collūcēbat collūcēbāmus collūcēbātis collūcēbant
    future collūcēbō collūcēbis collūcēbit collūcēbimus collūcēbitis collūcēbunt
    perfect collūxī collūxistī collūxit collūximus collūxistis collūxērunt,
    collūxēre
    pluperfect collūxeram collūxerās collūxerat collūxerāmus collūxerātis collūxerant
    future perfect collūxerō collūxeris collūxerit collūxerimus collūxeritis collūxerint
    subjunctive singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present collūceam collūceās collūceat collūceāmus collūceātis collūceant
    imperfect collūcērem collūcērēs collūcēret collūcērēmus collūcērētis collūcērent
    perfect collūxerim collūxerīs collūxerit collūxerīmus collūxerītis collūxerint
    pluperfect collūxissem collūxissēs collūxisset collūxissēmus collūxissētis collūxissent
    imperative singular plural
    first second third first second third
    active present — collūcē — — collūcēte —
    future — collūcētō collūcētō — collūcētōte collūcentō
    non-finite forms infinitive participle
    active passive active passive
    present collūcēre — collūcēns —
    perfect collūxisse — — —
    verbal nouns gerund supine
    genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
    collūcendī collūcendō collūcendum collūcendō — —

    Derived terms

    • collūcēsco

    References

    • “colluceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “colluceo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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