lucta

Latin

Etymology

Post-Classical, from luctor (“wrestle”). Malkiel (1977) compares its formation to that of the earlier-attested pugna (“fight, battle, combat”) and sees both as precursors to other feminine deverbal nouns in Romance.[1] Compare luctātiō and luctāmen.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluk.ta/, [ˈɫ̪ʊkt̪ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈluk.ta/, [ˈlukt̪ä]
  • Although Bennett (1907)[2] marks the vowel in the first syllable as long, there seems to be stronger evidence of it being short. See notes at luctor.

Noun

lucta f (genitive luctae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) a wrestling, wrestling match
  2. (Late Latin) struggle, fight

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lucta luctae
Genitive luctae luctārum
Dative luctae luctīs
Accusative luctam luctās
Ablative luctā luctīs
Vocative lucta luctae

Descendants

References
  1. Malkiel, Yakov (1977), “The Social Matrix of Palaeo-Romance Postverbal Nouns”, in Romance Philology, volume 31, issue 1, page 75
  2. Bennett, Charles E. (1907) The Latin Language: a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, page 60

Further reading
  • “lucta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lucta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “lucta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

lucta f (plural luctas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of luta.

Verb

lucta

  1. inflection of luctar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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