Noun: luz
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | luz |
| Plural f | luzes |
Sample Sentences
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1915, Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), “É noite” (It's night. The night is very dark. In a house a great distance away. The light from a window shines.)
Nouns inflected like luz
bissetriz,
meretriz,
bisectriz,
palidez,
polidez,
diretriz,
eleitriz,
codorniz,
pinador,
nitidez,
micromatriz,
esqualidez,
liminar,
perfuratriz,
cupidez,
dura-máter,
perpendicular,
imperatriz,
pia-máter,
aboiz, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Doublet of lux. Compare Galician luz. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
luz', Old Portuguese Nouns '
luz', Latin Nouns '
lux', Galician Nouns '
luz'.
Verbs referencing "luz"
Galician Nouns
luz.
Translations