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Lucia is both a feminine given name and a surname. It comes from the Latin word Lux meaning 'light'. It is the feminine form of the Roman praenomen Lucius and can be alternatively spelled as Lucy.
Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lucie, Lucia, and Luzia. The English Lucy surname is taken from the Norman language that was Latin-based and derives from place names in Normandy based on the Latin male personal name Lucius. It was transmitted to England after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century (see also De Lucy).
Luce is an American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French and Italian surname. [citation needed] It is also a French and Italian feminine given name, variant of Lucia and Lucy, or masculine name, variant of Luc (given name).
[2] [3] The praenomen was used by both patrician and plebeian families, and gave rise to the patronymic gentes Lucia and Lucilia. [4] It was regularly abbreviated L. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Throughout Roman history, Lucius was the most common praenomen, used slightly more than Gaius and somewhat more than Marcus .
"Santa Lucia" (Italian: [ˈsanta luˈtʃiːa], Neapolitan: [ˈsandə luˈʃiːə]) is a traditional Neapolitan song. It was translated by Teodoro Cottrau (1827–1879) from Neapolitan into Italian and published by the Cottrau firm, as a barcarola , in Naples in 1849, during the first stage of the Italian unification .
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