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.
   • 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 228:

     Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes.

2. Translucent; clear, lucid.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, pages 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
• noctilucent
• lucently

• lucence
• lucency
• luculent

lūcent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lūceō