Λουκᾶς

See also: Λουκάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formed with the suffix -ᾶς (-âs) as the hypocoristic of the Greco-Roman name Λούκιος (Loúkios, “Lucius”) or Λουκανός (Loukanós, “Lucanus”) or both.[1][2][3][4][5]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /luː.kâːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /luˈkas/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /luˈkas/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /luˈkas/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /luˈkas/

Proper noun

Λουκᾶς • (Loukâs) m (genitive Λουκᾶ); first declension

Luke, Lucas

Declension

First declension of ὁ Λουκᾶς; τοῦ Λουκᾶ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Λουκᾶς ho Loukâs
Genitive	τοῦ Λουκᾶ toû Loukâ
Dative	τῷ Λουκᾷ tôi Loukâi
Accusative	τὸν Λουκᾶν tòn Loukân
Vocative	Λουκᾶ Loukâ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Λουκάς (Loukás)
→ Aghwan: 𐔾𐕒𐕡𐕄𐔰𐕚 (luḳas)
→ Arabic: لُوقَا (lūqā)
→ Aramaic: לוקא (lūqā)
→ Basque: Lukas
→ Belarusian: Лука (Luka)
→ Bulgarian: Лука (Luka)
→ Catalan: Lluc
→ Chinese:
Mandarin: 路加 (Lùjiā)
→ Classical Syriac: ܠܘܩܐ (Lūqā)
→ Czech: Lukáš
→ Danish: Lukas
→ Dutch: Lucas
→ English: Luke, Lucas
→ Esperanto: Luko
→ Finnish: Luukas
→ French: Luc, Lucas
→ Galician: Lucas
→ Gothic: 𐌻𐌿𐌺𐌰𐍃 (lūkās)
→ Georgian: ლუკა (luḳa)
→ German: Lukas
→ Hebrew: לוקאס (Luqas), לוקא (Luqa)
→ Hungarian: Lukács
→ Indonesian: Lukas
→ Irish: Lúcás
→ Italian: Luca
→ Japanese: ルカ (Ruka)
→ Korean: 루가 (Ruga)
→ Latin: Lūcās
→ Lithuanian: Lukas
→ Macedonian: Лука (Luka)
→ Norwegian: Lukas
→ Old Armenian: Ղուկաս (Łukas)
- Armenian: Ղուկաս (Ġukas)
→ Persian: لوقا (luqâ)
→ Piedmontese: Luch
→ Polish: Łukasz
→ Portuguese: Lucas
→ Romanian: Luca
→ Russian: Лука (Luka)
→ Sardinian: Luca
→ Serbo-Croatian: Luka, Лука
→ Sicilian: Luca
→ Slovak: Lukáš
→ Slovene: Luka
→ Spanish: Lucas
→ Swahili: Luka
→ Swedish: Lukas
→ Tagalog: Lucas
→ Turkish: Luka
→ Ukrainian: Лука (Luka)
→ Venetian: Łuca
→ Walloon: Luk

References

Schulze, Wilhelm (1901) Graeca Latina (in Latin), Göttingen: Officina Academica Dieterichiana, page 12
Moulton, James Hope, Howard, Wilbert Francis (1919–1929) A Grammar of New Testament Greek, II: Accidence and Word-Formation, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, section 37, page 88
Egger, Carolus (1963) “Luca, Luc, Lucas, Luke, Lukas”, in Lexicon nominum virorum et mulierum‎ (in Latin), 2nd edition, Rome: Societas libraria "Studium", page 155a
Blass, Friedrich, Debrunner, Albert, Rehkopf, Friedrich (1975) Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Griechisch‎ (in German), 14th edition, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 125.2, footnote 6, page 100
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, page 603a