luctus

Perfect passive participle of lūgeō.

•  (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫuːk.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluk.t̪us]

lūctus (feminine lūcta, neuter lūctum); first/second-declension participle

1. mourned, grieved, lamented

First/second-declension adjective.

lūctus m (genitive lūctūs); fourth declension

1. grief, sorrow, mourning

   Synonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, trīstitia, trīstitūdō, tristitās, cūra, dēsīderium

   Antonyms: gaudium, dēlectātiō, lascīvia, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās

2. lamentation

Fourth-declension noun.

• Asturian: llutu
• Italian: lutto
• Old Galician-Portuguese: luito
  • Galician: loito
  • Portuguese: luto
• Spanish: luto

• “luctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• luctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to suffer affliction: in luctu esse (Sest. 14. 32)
    
  • some one's death has plunged me in grief: mors alicuius luctum mihi attulit
    
  • to be overwhelmed by a great affliction: in maximos luctus incidere
    
  • to undergo severe trouble, trials: magnum luctum haurire (without ex-)
    
  • to feel sorrow about a thing: luctum percipere ex aliqua re
    
  • to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere
    
  • to lay aside one's grief: luctum deponere (Phil. 14. 13. 34)
    
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
    
• “luctus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray