Lucus a non lucendo

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Lucus a non lucendo ( Latin : "[The word for] grove [comes] from not shining") is a phrase that caricatures absurd etymologies , such as folk etymologies . In it it is assumed that the word for grove lucus is related to the similarly sounding word for lights lucere , even if the connection can only be established with difficulty.

This derivation as an antiphrasis , which may originally come from Marcus Terentius Varro , can be found in Maurus Servius Honoratius , in his Aeneiskommentar ad 1, 22 (4), and in Isidore of Seville , Etymologiae 1, 29, 3. Servius is another example bellum a nulla re bella (“War, because there is nothing beautiful in it”), Isidore still calls lutum “dirt” from loudly “washed”, “clean”. Similarly, even canis a non canendo ( "dog because he does not sing") and lupus a non lupendo ( "Wolf, because he does not mourn").