Ludovician

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adjective

Relating to any person called Louis or Ludwig.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveLudovician (comparative more Ludovician, superlative most Ludovician)

comparative more Ludovician · superlative most Ludovician

  1. Relating to any person called Louis or Ludwig.

    The Ludovician branch was afterwards divided [...]

    1807, Coxe, History of the House of Austria, page 522
    2 more examples

    The fac-simile exhibits a minuscrule Capetian writing, already become Ludovician [...]

    1850, M. J. B. Silvestre, Universal Palæography, page 512

    Those trajectories encompassed absolute social extremes: the kings of France making their solemn entries into Paris through the Ludovician Arch of the Porte [...]

    1994, Richard Mowery Andrews, Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, page 551

Origin

  1. Medieval LatinLūdovīciānus
  2. EnglishLudovician

From Medieval Latin Lūdovīciānus, from Lūdovīcus + -iānus. By surface analysis, Ludovic + -ian.

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Translations

French ludovicien
  • ludovicienTranslations

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APA

Ludovician. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ludovician

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“Ludovician.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ludovician. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ludovician,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ludovician.

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