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Luca

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Italian Luca, from Latin Lūcās, from Ancient Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs), hypocoristic of Λούκιος (Loúkios) (from Latin Lūcius m) or Λουκανός (Loukanós) or both with -ᾶς (-âs). As a female given name, used in Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian as an equivalent of Lucy (ultimately of same origin, from Latin Lūcia f), but English usage is influenced by the male given name, similar Lucas, Luke, and the feminine ending -a.

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Luca

  1. A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.
  2. A female given name.
    • 2000, Trezza Azzopardi, “Waiting”, in The Hiding Place, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 4:
      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.
    • 2014 June 16, Luciana Craita, “Black Alpha”, in Luca the Werewolf Daughter, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 74:
      Miss Lori, my girlfriend is on the phone. Her name is Luca.
    • 2014 November 19, D.L. London, “Book of Luke”, in Under the Blood, Bloomigton, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 646:
      “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.
    • 2019 November, Jeremy Crawford, James Wyatt, Keith Baker, “Northedge”, in Eberron: Rising from the Last War (Dungeons & Dragons), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Sharn, City of Towers), page 171, column 1:
      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.
    • 2024, Angela Addams, “Levi”, in Fury (Hell Hath No Fury; 2), [Lincoln, Lincolnshire]: Totally Bound Publishing, →ISBN:
      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.

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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Luca (plural Lucas)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of LUCA.
    • 2020 November 11, Michael Marshall, “Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right”, in BBC‎[1], retrieved 11 November 2020:
      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.

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Aromanian

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Proper noun

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Luca m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Luke or Lucas

German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Italian Luca.

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    Luca

    1. a male given name from Italian, of early 2000's origin

    Italian

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    Etymology

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      Learned borrowing from Latin Lūcās.

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      • IPA(key): /ˈlu.ka/
      • Rhymes: -uka
      • Hyphenation: Lù‧ca

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      Luca m

      1. a male given name, equivalent to English Luke or Lucas
      2. Luke (biblical character)
      3. the Gospel of Luke

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      • → English: Luca
      • → German: Luca

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      Latin

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      Etymology 1

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      Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
      Wikipedia la
       Lucca on Wikipedia

      Possibly from Celtic-Ancient Ligurian *luk- (“swampy place”).[1][2] Or, possibly instead from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”).[3]

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      Lūca f sg (genitive Lūcae); first declension

      1. a city in Etruria; site of modern-day Lucca
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      First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

      singular
      nominative Lūca
      genitive Lūcae
      dative Lūcae
      accusative Lūcam
      ablative Lūcā
      vocative Lūca
      locative Lūcae
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      Etymology 2

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      From Lūcās.

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      Lūcā m

      1. ablative/vocative singular of Lūcās

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      • “Luca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “Luca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      1. ^ UTET
      2. ^ Haegen, Anne Mueller von der; Strasser, Ruth F. (2013). "Lucca". Art & Architecture: Tuscany. Potsdam: H.F.Ullmann Publishing. p. 57.
      3. ^ 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.

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      Luca m (genitive/dative lui Luca)

      1. a male given name, equivalent to English Luke or Lucas

      Vietnamese

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      Luca

      1. alternative spelling of Lu-ca (“Luke”)
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