Lucia

See also: lucia, lucía, lúcia, Lúcia, and Lucía

English

Etymology

Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lūcia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luˈsiːə/, /ˈluː.ʃə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːə
  • Rhymes: -uːʃə

Proper noun

Lucia

  1. A female given name from Latin.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

German

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [luˈt͡siːa], [ˈluːt͡si̯a]
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Proper noun

Lucia f (genitive Lucias or Lucia)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Italian

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ia
  • IPA(key): /luˈt͡ʃi.a/
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: Lu‧cì‧a

Proper noun

Lucia f

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Feminine form of Lūcius.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lūcia f (genitive Lūciae, masculine Lūcius); first declension

  1. A feminine praenomen.

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative Lūcia Lūciae
genitive Lūciae Lūciārum
dative Lūciae Lūciīs
accusative Lūciam Lūciās
ablative Lūciā Lūciīs
vocative Lūcia Lūciae

Descendants

  • English: Lucy
  • Italian: Lucia
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: Luzia
  • Portuguese: Lúcia

References

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlu.tʃja]
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Lucia f (genitive/dative Luciei, male equivalent Lucian)

  1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɫut͡sia/

Proper noun

Lucia f (genitive singular Lucie, nominative plural Lucie, declension pattern of ulica)

  1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Lucia
singular plural
nominative Lucia Lucie
genitive Lucie Lucií
dative Lucii Luciám
accusative Luciu Lucie
locative Lucii Luciách
instrumental Luciou Luciami

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Lucia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɵˈsiːˌa/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Lucia c (genitive Lucias)

  1. Saint Lucy / Saint Lucia (a female Sicilian martyr and saint celebrated on December 13 as the only saint to be celebrated in the otherwise Lutheran Scandinavia)
  2. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Synonyms

  • Sankta Lucia (the saint)

Derived terms

  • lucia (person portraying Saint Lucy; Saint Lucy's Day)
  • luciadagen (Saint Lucy's Day)
  • luciatåg (Saint Lucy's Day procession, Lucia procession)