lucum

lucum is a Latin form of lux, meaning “light, daylight”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective or genitive plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of lucus, “(sacred) grove, wood”.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.22.4: … itaque et ego recte tibi dixi ubi esset, et tibi ille recte negavit. sed hoc quoque ipsum continuo adoriamur. Lucum hominibus non sane probo quod est desertior, sed habet . verum hoc quoque ut censueris, quippe qui omnia. ego …

Vergil, Georgics 4.468: et caligantem nigra formidine lucum

All forms of lux (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.