Lucius

Latin Lucius, a common Roman praenomen deriving from lux (“light”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈluːsɪəs/, /ˈluːʃəs/

Lucius

1. A male given name; rather rare in English.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Acts 13:1:

     Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

• Lucian
• Lucia
• Lucy

• (praenominal abbreviation): L.

From lux (“light”), stem lūc-.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluː.ki.us/, [ˈɫuː.ki.ʊs]

Lūcius m (genitive Lūciī); second declension

1. A masculine praenomen.

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Lūcia f (praenomen)
• Lūcīpor (“slave of Lucius”)

• English: Lucius, Luke
• Italian: Lucio

• Lūcĭus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lucius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette