Lucy

lucy English + (Australopithecus) + (places) Etymology From en enm Lucy, from en fro Lucie (notably after the Christian martyr Saint Lucy Lucia of Syracuse), from en la Lucia (feminine of la Lucius, a Roman praenomen), from la lux light. The name of the Australopithecus genus skeleton came from the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, which was being played repeatedly at the dig site camp at the time of the discovery. The slang term for LSD also derives from the song name, which many believe is essentially a reference to the drug.ihjkiki lucy in the sky with diamonds n Pronunciation en /ˈluːsi/ RP en /ˈlʉwsɪj/ SSB en /ˈlusi/ GA en en-us-Lucy.ogg GA en /ˈlʉːsi/ AU,NZ en /ˈlʉse/ /-sɪ/ /-si/ Scotland,NI en /ˈlɪʊsi/ Wales en uːsi 2 Proper noun ~ s ies en female Latin. V IV 9 Then did my younger brother Amidas / Love that same other Damzell, Lucy bright, / To whom but little dowre allotted was; / Her vertue was the dowre, that did delight. 2nd 52 II w:She dwelt among the untrodden ways She liv'd unknown, and few could know / When Lucy ceas'd to be; / But she is in her Grave, and, Oh ! / The difference to me. en 1830 w:Mary Russell Mitford Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love! Is not Lucy a pretty soubrette, a wearer of cast gowns and cast smiles, smart and coquettish! en 2009 Dora Raymond Aunt Dora's Legacy AuthorHouse 1438980663 19 Now we'll just use a fiction name / Lucy that sounds nice / A name we can remember / Without repeating twice / / My name is so old fashioned / And they are very few / But some will have a puzzled look / And whisper Lucy who? en Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius. IV iv Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me / Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid. en archaeology The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis species discovered in Ethiopia, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was. en https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/the-fall-of-lucy/497798/ What Killed the World’s Most Famous Fossil? The Atlantic 2016-08-29 Ed Yong A new analysis of Lucy’s bones suggests that she may have fallen to her death from a tall tree. In 1974, scientists working in Ethiopia uncovered an extraordinary female skeleton, whom they called Lucy. She was 3.2 million years old, and belonged to a new species of hominid now known as Australopithecus afarensis. https://web.archive.org/web/20251126183739/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/the-fall-of-lucy/497798/ 26 November 2025 A place name: en village commune:suf/Montmort-Lucy dept/Marne r/Grand Est c/France. en commune in dept/Moselle r/Grand Est c/France. en commune in dept/Seine-Maritime r/Normandy c/France. en ucomm co/Houston County s/Alabama c/USA. Derived terms en Lucy Stoner en Miss Lucy en Montmort-Lucy Related terms variants: Lucia, Luci, Lucile, Lucille male given names: Lucius, Lucian Translations female given name Aragonese: an Lucía f Catalan: ca Llúcia f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 露西 Lùxī, cmn 路濟亞 Lùjìyà Catholic Czech: cs Lucie f Danish: da Lucia Dutch: nl Lucia Esperanto: eo Lucia, eo Lucino Finnish: fi Lucia French: fr Lucie f Galician: gl Lucía f German: de Lucia f, de Luzia f Greek: el Λουκία f Hungarian: hu Lúcia, hu Luca Italian: it Lucia f Latvian: lv Lūcija Lithuanian: lt Liucija f Norwegian: no Lucia Persian: fa لوسی lusi Polish: pl Łucja f Portuguese: pt Lúcia f, pt Luzia f Russian: ru Лю́сия f, ru Лю́си f, ru Люси́ f, ru Лю́ция f Scottish Gaelic: gd Liùsaidh f Serbo-Croatian: sh Lucija f Sicilian: scn Lucìa f Slovak: sk Lucia f Spanish: es Lucía f Swedish: sv Lucia Venetan: vec Łùzhia f Noun - en slang The drug LSD. en Thesaurus:LSD en 1967 w:Lennon–McCartney w:Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds Picture yourself in a boat on a river/With tangerine trees and marmalade skies/Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly/A girl with kaleidoscope eyes/Cellophane flowers of yellow and green/Towering over your head/Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes/And she's gone/Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds en 1974 w:Dick Cavett; Chris Porterfield Cavett 234 https://archive.org/details/cavett0000cave/page/234/mode/1up New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-116130-5 The last time I made moocah, or dug sweet Lucy, was with Janis Joplin, who gave me one that must have been rolled by Montezuma himself. I saw my thoughts in clear letters, and they both felt and looked like a double strike on a coin . en 1984 Lynne Reid Banks The Warning Bell 302 Tanya shook her head slowly. 'We married to fill out the missing bits of ourselves. That doesn't have to be a bad reason. But you see, I'd been "in it". The contrast between that infernal blaze of feeling and keep-the-home-fires burning was just too much. It's why one mustn't start taking Lucy. Lucy was the current slang for LSD. References en Hominids Recreational drugs en eponyms Cebuano Etymology Borrowed from ceb en Lucy. Also a shortening of ceb Lucia. Proper noun ceb female English ceb female Lucia,Lucilla Tagalog Etymology tl :bor en:Lucy + 1 Pronunciation Proper noun + tl female English