English Explanatory Dictionary

lucus a non lucendo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. A form of illogical argument asserting that two things are related because they have opposite significations.

Word forms

lucus a non lucendo

Etymology

From Latin lūcus ā nōn lūcendō, literally "a grove from not shining", referring to Roman rhetorician Quintilian's assertion, in his Institutio Oratoria, that Latin lūcus (“grove”) derived from lūceō (“to shine”), because groves were dark places and did not shine.

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