luctor – Latin verb conjugation

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(Ind. Present 1.sg.): luctor

Active Nominal Forms

Infinitive: Present participle: luctāns; luctántis
Future participle: luctātúrus
Gerund: luctándum
Gerundive: luctándus

Passive Nominal Forms

Infinitive: Perfect participle: luctā́tum

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Translations

struggle, to strive, to labour in difficulty, to fight

wrestle, to contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw

Etymology

1. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”) (whence also lū̆xus, -a, -um (“dislocated”) and lū̆xus, -ūs (“dislocation; splendor”)).
2. Cognate with Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos), Lithuanian lugnas, and Old Norse lykna. Compare with English louk; lock.
3. Per De Vaan, formed as a frequentative from Proto-Italic *luktos, the perfect passive participle form of an unattested non-frequentative verb. De Vaan assumes the stem had a short vowel here and in lū̆xus, despite noting that this is difficult to explain as the word meets the conditions for Lachmann's law to apply; he speculates that a hypothetical nasal present stem (which would regularly have had a short vowel), as found in Celtic, could have exerted analogical influence on the vowel length. See: English 'louk'.

Verbs referencing "luctor"

French lutter, Occitan luchar, Spanish luchar, Italian lottare, Franco-Provençal lutar, Portuguese lutar, Romanian lupta, Albanian luftoj, Valencian lluitar, Asturian lluchar, Aromanian alumtu, Middle French luitter, Galician loitar, Aragonese luitar, Friulian lotâ.

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