Latin

Participle

lūctus m ‎(feminine lūcta, neuter lūctum); first/second declension

1. mourned, grieved, lamented

Inflection

First/second declension.

Noun

luctus m ‎(genitive luctūs); fourth declension

1. grief, sorrow, mourning
2. lamentation

Inflection

Fourth declension.

References

• luctus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• luctus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “luctus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to suffer affliction: in luctu esse (Sest. 14. 32)
    
  • some one's death has plunged me in grief: mors alicuius luctum mihi attulit
    
  • to be overwhelmed by a great affliction: in maximos luctus incidere
    
  • to undergo severe trouble, trials: magnum luctum haurire (without ex-)
    
  • to feel sorrow about a thing: luctum percipere ex aliqua re
    
  • to banish all sad thoughts: omnem luctum plane abstergere
    
  • to lay aside one's grief: luctum deponere (Phil. 14. 13. 34)
    
  • time assuages the most violent grief: vel maximos luctus vetustate tollit diuturnitas (Fam. 5. 16. 5)
    
• luctus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray