lumia - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology 1
    * 1.1.1 Noun
  • 1.2 Etymology 2
    * 1.2.1 Noun
    * 1.2.1.1 See also
  • 1.3 Anagrams
• 2 Finnish
  • 2.1 Noun
• 3 Italian
  • 3.1 Pronunciation
  • 3.2 Noun
  • 3.3 Anagrams
• 4 Spanish
  • 4.1 Pronunciation
  • 4.2 Noun
  • 4.3 Further reading

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lumia (plural lumias)

1. A certain pear-shaped citrus fruit.
   Synonyms: French lime, pear lemon, sweet lemon

Coined by the musician and inventor Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968), presumably from Latin lumen (“light”).

lumia (uncountable)

1. (art) The use of light patterns as an expressive art form, unaccompanied by sound.

• clavilux
• Umali, aumil, miaul, mulai

lumia

1. partitive plural of lumi

lumia f (plural lumie)

1. citron (plant and fruit)

• lumai
• IPA(key): /ˈlumja/ [ˈlu.mja]
• Rhymes: -umja
• Syllabification: lu‧mia

lumia f (plural lumias)

1. whore; hooker

• “lumia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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