Lucia

See also: lucia, lucía, lúcia, Lúcia, and Lucía

English

Etymology

Latinate variant of Lucy, or today borrowed from modern Italian. Name of a Sicilian martyr, Latin Lūcia, feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lūcius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luˈsiːə/, /ˈluː.ʃə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːə
• Rhymes: -uːʃə

Proper noun

Lucia

1. A female given name from Latin.

Derived terms

• Saint Lucia
• Santa Lucia fir

Related terms

• Santa Lucia

Translations

female given name — see Lucy

Anagrams

• aulic, cauli

German

Alternative forms

• Luzia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [luˈt͡siːa], [ˈluːt͡si̯a]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Lucia f (genitive Lucias or Lucia)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Related terms

• Lucie, Luzie

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /luˈt͡ʃi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: Lu‧cì‧a

Proper noun

Lucia f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Anagrams

• cauli, ciula

Latin

Etymology

Feminine form of Lūcius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫuː.ki.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈluː.t͡ʃi.a]

Proper noun

Lūcia f (genitive Lūciae, masculine Lūcius); first declension

1. a feminine praenomen

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Lūcia	Lūciae
genitive	Lūciae	Lūciārum
dative	Lūciae	Lūciīs
accusative	Lūciam	Lūciās
ablative	Lūciā	Lūciīs
vocative	Lūcia	Lūciae

Descendants

• English: Lucy
• Italian: Lucia
• Old Galician-Portuguese: Luzia
  • Portuguese: Luzia
• → Portuguese: Lúcia

References

• “Lūcia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlu.tʃja]

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Lucia f (genitive/dative Luciei, male equivalent Lucian)

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lut͡sia/, [ˈlut͡sia]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: Lu‧ci‧a

Proper noun

Lucia f (diminutive Lucka or Lucinka)

1. a female given name

Declension

Declension of Lucia
(pattern ulica)

	singular	plural
nominative	Lucia	Lucie
genitive	Lucie	Lucií
dative	Lucii	Luciám
accusative	Luciu	Lucie
locative	Lucii	Luciách
instrumental	Luciou	Luciami

Derived terms

Hypocoristics

• Luca

Further reading

• “Lucia”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɵˈsiːˌa/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Lucia c (genitive Lucias)

1. Saint Lucy / Saint Lucia (a female Sicilian martyr and saint celebrated on December 13 as the only saint to be celebrated in the otherwise Lutheran Scandinavia)
2. a female given name, equivalent to English Lucy

Synonyms

• Sankta Lucia (the saint)

Derived terms

• lucia (“person portraying Saint Lucy; Saint Lucy's Day”)
• luciadagen (“Saint Lucy's Day”)
• luciatåg (“Saint Lucy's Day procession, Lucia procession”)