Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

transluce

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: transluce
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To shine (light) through, and thus make (the thing which is shined through) translucent.

verb

To be translucent or transparent, to allow light to shine through.

Example Sentences

"[…] for her stainless soul transluced the fairest skin, making simplicity a grace, filling her large blue eyes with gentle rays; and her arch laughter with innocent mirth."
"By translucing the paper when the negative is otherwise finished the grain can be reduced to a minimum. The following translucing media may be mentioned: (1) Vaseline, (2) paraffin waxin paraffin, (3) castor oil and alcohol, (4) white wax ..."
"The less transparent consciousness is, the less translucent will the world itself be. In other words, when consciousness is very opaque, it is not able to transluce the world. Now to transluce the world means to make it understandable."
"In his refusal to allow tropes to transluce into meaning, Donne locates spiritual significance not in the disembodied and abstract sphere but in the body itself."
"holy are the doors that admit holy are the rivets that bind holy are the windows that transluce"
"At the end of the dance, when “matter turned to spirit,” the two cliffs once again came together to form an arch but both rock structures were now lighted to transluce and transform into stained glass."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t Proto-Indo-European *-ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts Proto-Italic *trāns Proto-Italic *trāns- Latin trāns- Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti Proto-Italic *loukeō Proto-Indo-European *lewk- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *lukéh₁yeti Proto-Italic *l(o)ukēō? Latin lūceō Latin trānslūceōbor. ▲ Latin trānslūceō Latin trānslūcēnsbor. English translucent English transluce As if from Latin trānslūceō (“shine through; be translucent”), but perhaps a back-formation from translucent (ultimately from the same Latin verb).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: trānslūceō

Inflected Forms

transluces (present, singular) translucing (participle, present) transluced (participle, past) transluced (past)

Questions

What does transluce mean?: To shine (light) through, and thus make (the thing which is shined through) translucent.
Where does transluce come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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