Lucia

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

• IPA^(key): /luˈsiːə/, /ˈluː.ʃə/

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• Rhymes: -iːə
• Rhymes: -uːʃə

Lucia

1. A female given name from Latin.

• aulic, cauli

• Luzia

• IPA^(key): [luˈt͡siːa], [ˈluːt͡si̯a]

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Lucia f (genitive Lucias or Lucia)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

• Lucie, Luzie

• Rhymes: -ia

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

Lucia f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

• cauli, ciula

Feminine form of Lūcius.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫuː.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.t͡ʃi.a]

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

1. A feminine praenomen.

First-declension noun.

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

• “Lūcia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• IPA^(key): [ˈlu.tʃja]

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

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

• IPA^(key): /ˈɫut͡sia/

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

1. a female given name

• “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, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /lɵˈsiːˌa/

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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

• Sankta Lucia (the saint)

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