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Luca
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Appendix:Variations of "luca"
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from en it Luca, from en la Lūcās, from en grc Λουκᾶς, hypocoristic of grc Λούκιος (from en la Lūcius m) or grc Λουκανός or both with grc -ᾶς. As a female given name, used in hu - and sh - as an equivalent of en Lucy (ultimately of same origin, from la Lūcia f), but English usage is influenced by the male given name, similar en Lucas, en Luke, and the feminine ending en -a.
Pronunciation
en /ˈluːkə/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Luca.wav Southern England
en uːkə 2
Proper noun
en male Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.
en female.
en 2000 w:Trezza Azzopardi Waiting The Hiding Place 1st American New York, N.Y. Atlantic Monthly Press 2001 4 https://archive.org/details/hidingplace00azzo_0/page/4/mode/1up 0-87113-815-8 This is my bedroom, and Luca’s, and Fran’s, and my mother’s. The four of us sleep here, and at the back of the house live Celesta and Rose, my other two sisters who I don’t really know. We are Celesta, Rosaria, Francesca, Luca, Dolores.
en 16 June 2014 Luciana Craita Black Alpha Luca the Werewolf Daughter [Bloomington, Ind.] w:Xlibris 74 https://books.google.com/books?id=vED4AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 978-1-4990-0895-1 Miss Lori, my girlfriend is on the phone. Her name is Luca.
en 19 November 2014 D.L. London Book of Luke Under the Blood Bloomigton, Ind. w:AuthorHouse 646 https://books.google.com/books?id=q0yWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA646 978-1-4969-2493-3 “No, it wasn’t a dream, Luke….You have a daughter. I just assumed she was Ryan’s. I got married days after you came to Chicago….days after you and me… I’m sorry….” / “What’s her name, Drea?” “Luca….your daughter’s name is Luca.” / “No, no… her name is Luca Landon.” Luca Landon would always connect Mattdrea Cyrus to Luke Landon.
en 2019 November w:Jeremy Crawford; James Wyatt; Keith Baker Northedge w:Eberron: Rising from the Last War w:Dungeons & Dragons Renton, Wash. w:Wizards of the Coast chapter 3 (Sharn, City of Towers) 171 https://archive.org/details/dungeons-dragons-5th-edition/Wizards%20of%20the%20Coast%20-%20AD%26D%205th%20Edition%20-%20Eberron_%20Rising%20From%20the%20Last%20War/page/171/mode/1up 1 978-0-7869-6692-9 Who is the playwright of the Diamond Theater responsible for these stirring stories? Her name is Luca Syara, but beyond that, she’s an enigma.
en 2024 Angela Addams Levi https://books.google.com/books?id=dk3oEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT18 Fury Hell Hath No Fury 2 [Lincoln, Lincolnshire] Totally Bound Publishing 978-1-80250-874-1 I don’t know if you ever met my stepmother, Luca. When Luca’s husband died protecting my dad, he’d felt obligated to show his loyalty and gratitude by marrying her, adopting her sons, treating them as his own.
Further reading
Luca (masculine given name)
Luca (feminine given name)
Etymology 2
Noun
en LUCA.
en https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-charles-darwin-early-life-theory Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right 2020-11-11 2020-11-11 Michael Marshall BBC What’s more, every living organism is ultimately descended from a single ancestral population: the Last Universal Common Ancestor (Luca), which lived over 3.5 billion years ago when the planet was newly formed. https://web.archive.org/web/20260807090539/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-charles-darwin-early-life-theory 7 August 2026
Anagrams
en aclu ACLU UCLA caul
Aromanian
Proper noun
rup proper noun m
rup male Luke,Lucas
German
Alternative forms
de Luka
Etymology
de :bor it:Luca
de it Luca.
Pronunciation
de /ˈluːka/
de De-Luca.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
de proper noun
de male Italian early 2000's
Italian
it:
Etymology
it :lbor la:Lūcās
it la Lūcās.
Pronunciation
Lùca
Proper noun
m
it male Luke,Lucas
Luke biblical character
the Gospel of Luke
Descendants
en Luca 1
de Luca 1
See also
it Lucca
it Biblical characters Books of the Bible
Latin
Etymology 1
la:
Lucca
Possibly from la cel --la xlg *luk- swampy place.UTETHaegen, Anne Mueller von der; Strasser, Ruth F. (2013). "Lucca". Art & Architecture: Tuscany. Potsdam: H.F.Ullmann Publishing. p. 57. Or, possibly instead from a derivative of la ine-pro *lewk- bright.Villar: Villar, F. La complessità dei livelli di stratificazione indoeuropea nell'Europa occidentale, in Bocchi, G., Ceruti, M. (eds.), Le radici prime dell'Europa, Milano 2001.
Pronunciation
Lūca
Proper noun
Lūca<1.loc>
la city r/Etruria; site of modern-day Lucca
Declension
Lūca<1.loc>
Derived terms
la Lūca bōs
la Lūcānia
la Lūcānus
la Lūcensis
Etymology 2
From la Lūcās.
Pronunciation
Lūcā
Proper noun
la proper noun form Lūcā m
la Lūcās abl//voc s
References
la Italy
Romanian
Pronunciation
ro LL-Q7913 (ron)-KlaudiuMihaila-Luca.wav
Proper noun
m
ro male Luke,Lucas
Vietnamese
Proper noun
vi Lu-ca en Luke