lucent

Borrowed from lucent-, the participle stem of Latin lucere (“to shine”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈl(j)uːsənt/

lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent)

1. Emitting light; shining, luminous.
2. Translucent; clear, lucid.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:

     her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.

• electrolucent
• lucently

• lucence
• lucency
• luculent

lūcent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lūceō