luz

luz

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southern Luri.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Southern Luri terms

Borrowed from Hebrew לוּז (luz, “almond”).

luz

1. A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
2. The almond tree

From Latin lux.

luz f

1. light

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “luz”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Compare Portuguese luz.

• Hyphenation: luz

luz f (plural luces)

1. light
2. daylight

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “luz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “luz”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “luz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “luz”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “luz”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”).

luz f (plural luzs)

1. daylight

• Galician: luz
• Portuguese: luz

• Universo Cantigas - "luz"

• lus (Central Greater Poland)

Borrowed from German los.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlus/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: luz

luz m inan (diminutive luzik)

1. spacious place
2. (colloquial) free time, leisure
3. (colloquial) ease (freedom from effort, difficulty or hardship)

   Synonym: swoboda

4. (colloquial) margin (in machine learning: distance from the data point to a decision boundary)

   Synonym: marża

5. (colloquial, automotive) idle (running a vehicle's engine when the vehicle is not in motion)

   Synonym: bieg jałowy

• luz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• luz in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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.

• Audio (São Paulo):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -us, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃ
• Hyphenation: luz

luz f (plural luzes)

2. light (medium within which vision is possible)
   • 1915, Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), “É noite”:

     É noite. A noite é muito escura. Numa casa a uma grande distancia. Brilha a luz d'uma janella.

     It's night. The night is very dark. In a house a great distance away. The light from a window shines.

4. light; light source (object that emits light)
6. (figurative) light; enlightenment (knowledge about things as they really are)
7. (colloquial) electricity

For quotations using this term, see Citations:luz.

• à luz de
• dar à luz

• lúcido
• lucífero
• luzerna
• lúzio
• luzir

luz

1. inflection of luzir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Old Spanish luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from Proto-Indo-European *léwks (“light”). Compare the borrowed doublet lux.

• IPA^(key): /ˈluθ/ [ˈluθ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈlus/ [ˈlus] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -us (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: luz

luz f (plural luces)

1. light

   la luz extinguida

   the extinguished light

2. (anatomy) lumen
3. (figurative, usually in the plural) brightness, intelligence

   Vas a llegar con menos luces.

   You're going to get there with less intellect.

4. (figurative) focus, point of view, understanding

   Debes verlo bajo una nueva luz.

   You must see it from a new point of view.

5. (electricity) electric power

   Se fue la luz.

   The lights went out. (There is a blackout.)

6. (architecture) span

• “luz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “luz”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010