Lucina
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Lucina
C14: from Latin lūcīnus bringing to the light, from lūx light
Example Sentences
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One of the leader’s admirers, a restorer working on a fresco at Rome’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, etched her likeness onto the face of an angel holding up a map of Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Church and government officials launched an investigation after pictures of a cherub at the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina showed her newly restored face had an uncanny likeness to right-wing leader, Giorgia Meloni.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
The story began on Saturday when La Repubblica daily revealed that the face of a freshly-restored winged figure in the San Lorenzo in Lucina church closely resembled Meloni.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
Property records show the New York City home, a three-story townhouse in Greenwich Village that once housed a speakeasy, was purchased in 2006 by a limited liability corporation called Lucina International.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2022
Lucina was sometimes regarded as a Roman Eileithyia, the goddess of childbirth, but usually the name is used as an epithet of both Juno and Diana.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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