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luz

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Southern Luri.

Borrowed from Hebrew לוּז (luz, “almond”).

luz

  1. A small bone in the human spinal column, believed in Muslim and Jewish traditions to be the indestructible bone from which the body will be rebuilt at the time of resurrection.
  2. The almond tree

From Latin lux.

luz f

  1. light

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Compare Portuguese luz.

  • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈluθ/ [ˈluθ]
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /ˈlus/ [ˈlus]
  • Hyphenation: luz

luz f (plural luces)

  1. light
  2. daylight

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Inherited from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”).

luz f (plural luzs)

  1. daylight

Borrowed from German los.

  • IPA(key): /ˈlus/
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Syllabification: luz

luz m inan (diminutive luzik)

  1. spacious place
  2. (colloquial) free time, leisure
  3. (colloquial) ease (freedom from effort, difficulty or hardship)
    Synonym: swoboda
  4. (colloquial) margin (in machine learning: distance from the data point to a decision boundary)
    Synonym: marża
  5. (colloquial, automotive) idle (running a vehicle's engine when the vehicle is not in motion)
    Synonym: bieg jałowy

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  • luz in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • luz in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewk- (“white; light; bright”). Doublet of lux. Compare Galician luz.

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -us, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -uʃ
  • Hyphenation: luz

luz f (plural luzes)

  2. light (medium within which vision is possible)
    • 1915, Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), “É noite”:

      É noite. A noite é muito escura. Numa casa a uma grande distancia. Brilha a luz d'uma janella.

      It's night. The night is very dark. In a house a great distance away. The light from a window shines.
  4. light; light source (object that emits light)
  6. (figurative) light; enlightenment (knowledge about things as they really are)
  7. (colloquial) electricity

For quotations using this term, see Citations:luz.

luz

  1. inflection of luzir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
luces (1)

Inherited from Old Spanish luz, from Latin lūcem, from Proto-Italic *louks, from Proto-Indo-European *léwks (“light”). Compare the borrowed doublet lux.

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈluθ/ [ˈluθ]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈlus/ [ˈlus]
  • Rhymes: -uθ
  • Rhymes: -us
  • Syllabification: luz

luz f (plural luces)

  1. light

    la luz extinguida

    the extinguished light
  2. (anatomy) lumen
  3. (figurative, usually in the plural) brightness, intelligence

    Vas a llegar con menos luces.

    You're going to get there with less intellect.
  4. (figurative) focus, point of view, understanding

    Debes verlo bajo una nueva luz.

    You must see it from a new point of view.
  5. (electricity) electric power

    Se fue la luz.

    The lights went out. (There is a blackout.)
  6. (architecture) span