The story
- Latin · derived fromlucius“pike fish”
- Old French · derived fromlus
- Old French · derived fromlucet“small pike”
- Middle English · inherited fromlucet“heraldic representation of a pike fish”
- English todaylucet
From Middle English lucet (“heraldic representation of a pike fish”), from Old French lucet (“small pike”), from Old French lus + -et, from Latin lucius (“pike fish”).
Words from the same roots
Old Frenchlus all →
lucemilwell
Latinlucius all →
lucyLucaluceLucius
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.