lucumo

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lucumō.

Noun

lucumo (plural lucumos or lucumones)

1. An Etruscan ruler.

Translations

Etruscan title

• Etruscan: 𐌋𐌖𐌂𐌖𐌌𐌖 class animate (lucumu)
• French: lucumon (fr)
• Italian: lucumone (it) m
• Latin: lucumō, lucmō

Latin

Alternative forms

• lucmō

Etymology

Borrowed from Etruscan 𐌋𐌀𐌖𐌊𐌖𐌌 (laukum).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ku.moː/, [ˈɫ̪ʊkʊmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ku.mo/, [ˈluːkumo]

Noun

lucumō m (genitive lucumōnis); third declension

1. An appellation of Etruscan princes and priests
2. (erroneously, based on historical misunderstanding) The early name of Tarquinius Priscus
3. (metonymically, poetic, rare) An Etrurian

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lucumō	lucumōnēs
genitive	lucumōnis	lucumōnum
dative	lucumōnī	lucumōnibus
accusative	lucumōnem	lucumōnēs
ablative	lucumōne	lucumōnibus
vocative	lucumō	lucumōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: lucumone

References

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