transluceo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

trans-lūcĕo or trālūcĕo, ēre, v. n. *

I To shine across : speculo in speculum translucet imago, Lucr. 4, 332. —

II To shine through , show through; to let shine through , to be transparent or translucent : ille ... In liquidis translucet aquis, Ov. M. 4, 354: selenitis ex candido translucet melleo fulgore, Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 181: per raritatem (pontium) translucentibus fluviis, id. 8, 43, 68, § 169: translucens fissura, id. 17, 14, 24, § 104; Col. 4, 29, 9.

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