Etymology

luciferous

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Today it means: illuminating; providing light. Full definition →

Latin lucifer
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The story

  1. Latin · borrowed fromlucifer“light-bearing”
  2. English todayluciferous

Borrowed from Latin lucifer (“light-bearing”) (from lux, lucis (“light”)) + the suffix -ous.

Words from the same roots

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