Lucina

From Middle English Lucyna, Lucina, from Latin Lūcīna.

Lucina

1. (Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of childbirth, midwives and babies, daughter of Jupiter and Juno and counterpart of the Greek Eileithyia; alternatively regarded as an aspect of Juno (and used as an epithet).
   • 2005, Patricia Montley, chapter IL, in In Nature's Honor: Myths and Rituals Celebrating the Earth‎, page 5:

     Lucina, the Sabine goddess of light, was combined with the Roman Juno, and as Juno Lucina, goddess of childbirth, she brought children into the world.

   • 2008, Laurie Sue Brockway, chapter IL, in The Goddess Pages: A Divine Guide to Finding Love and Happiness‎, page 184:

     Many believe the genesis of saint Lucy can be found in the mythology of two roman deities: Lucina, goddess of birth and light, who merged with the mother goddess Juno.

   • 2014, Alison Findlay, birth, entry in Women in Shakespeare: A Dictionary, unnumbered page,

     He^[Pericles] can only pray to Lucina, goddess of childbirth and 'gentle midwife/ To those that cry at night' to speed Thaisa's delivery (Per. 3.1.10–14), and has not even time to commit her body to the sea during the storm.

2. (astronomy) 146 Lucina, a main belt asteroid.
3. (rare) A female given name from Latin.

• Juno Lucina

• Alcuin, Lucian, uncial

From lucīnus (“bringing to the light”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /luːˈkiː.na/, [ɫ̪uːˈkiːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈt͡ʃi.na/, [luˈt͡ʃiːnä]

Lūcīna f sg (genitive Lūcīnae); first declension

1. Lucina (the Roman goddess of childbirth, midwives and babies)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.451-452:

     parce, precor, gravidīs, facilis Lūcīnā, puellīs
     mātūrumque uterō molliter aufer onus.

     Spare, I pray – by [you it is] easily done, Lucina – the pregnant girls,
     and gently withdraw the ripened burden from the womb.
     (See Lucina (mythology).)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Lucina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lucina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Lucina

1. Alternative form of Lucyna.

• “Lucina, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 15 June 2018.