Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman goddess of childbirth, from Latin Lucina, literally "she that brings to the light," fem. of lucinus, from lux (see light (n.)).
Wikipedia
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Lucina was the goddess of childbirth who safeguarded the lives of women in labour. Lucina was also an epithet for Juno. The name was generally taken to mean "she who brings children into the light" (Latin: lux, lucis, "light"), but may actually have been derived from lucus ("grove") after a sacred grove of lotus trees on the Esquiline Hill associated with the goddess, later the site of her temple. Her Greek equivalent was Eileithyia.
Lucina was chief among a number of deities who influenced or guided every aspect of birth and child development, such as Vagitanus, who opened the newborn's mouth to cry, and Fabulinus, who enabled the child's first articulate speech. The collective di nixi were birth goddesses, and had an altar in the Campus Martius.
The asteroid 146 Lucina and the extinct species of ostracod Luprisca incuba are named after the goddess.
Lučina ( or Łuczyna) is a river in Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It is the tributary of the Ostravice River to which it enters in Ostrava. It originates in Beskids and then flows northwestward through Horní Bludovice and Dolní Bludovice, near Havířov. Žermanice Dam is built on the river. River is distinct for its meanders which are protected as a unique natural landmark.
The book Most nad Łucyną (The Bridge on Łucyna) by Polish poet Wiesław Adam Berger is centered on the river.
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Lučina may refer to:
- Lučina River, a river in the Czech Republic
- Lučina (Frýdek-Místek District), a village in the Czech Republic
- Lučina (Ćićevac), a village in the Ćićevac municipality, Rasina District of Serbia
- Lučina, Croatia, a village in the municipality Slivno, Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia
Lučina is a village in Frýdek-Místek District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It has a population of 1181 (2008). It lies on the shore of Žermanice Dam, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia.
The construction of Žermanice Dam on Lučina River necessitated resettlement of the population of the villages Dolní Domaslavice and Soběšovice, which were going to be partly flooded. Therefore, a new village was founded on the left bank of the nascent reservoir to accommodate resettled population, encompassing former eastern territories of the aforementioned villages. Officially the municipality of Lučina began to exist on 8 January 1956.
Lučina is a village in the municipality of Ćićevac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 927 people.
Usage examples of "lucina".
She succeeded so well that even Juno Lucina had not been able to find her, for she was barren.
Gods of women are for men too, Juno Lucina and Juno Sospita and the rest, but Bona Dea is ours alone.
Instead, Lucina had heard, he was living alone in a miserable shack on the mountain above Paradisio, studying sorcery.
He wrote exquisite poetry, which he sometimes recited to himself in a quiet voice as he strolled in the gardens at night, not realizing Lucina was listening, she thought.
The master had given Lucina a water-color painting of a butterfly three months earlier as a sixteenth-birthday present.
Playing his role with the Indians was one thing, but he could never forgive himself for his degrading behavior with Lucina and Maria Therese.
Lorenzo in Lucina in the Corso -- and look attentively at it -- so as to describe it to me on your return.
Leaving the Treasury stuffed to the rafters with money and bullion, not to mention various emergency hoards of bullion in the temples of Ops, Juno Moneta, Hercules Olivarius and Mercury, and thousands of chests of money in Juno Lucina, Iuventus, Venus Libitina and Venus Erucina.
Was this how Gaius Gracchus had felt in the grove of Lucina beneath the Janiculum eighty-two years ago?
Gaius Julius Caesar, was born on the thirteenth day of Quinctilis, which meant that his birth was entered in the register at the temple of Juno Lucina as occurring two days before the Ides of Quinctilis, his status as patrician, his rank as senatorial.
When the mother feels the fulness of time at hand, the priestess of Lucina, the midwife, is duly summoned, and she comes bearing in her hand a tripod, better known as a three-legged stool, the uses of which are only revealed to the initiated.
They had six children: Lucina, Therese, Margaret, Marcia, Celine and Clarence.
The first day of March, when husbands and wives joined in praying to Juno Lucina for the happiness and continuance of their married life.
The early Italic Lucina was a goddess of light and therefore-because birth is the first time we see her-of labor and childbed as well.
As Juno Lucina, Queen of Celestial Light, She is related to Her Greek counterpart, Hera, from Whose breasts streamed the Milky Way.