Lucifer


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Lucifer /ˈluːsɪfə/
noun
  • 1 the Devil.
  • 2 literary the planet Venus when it rises in the morning.
  • 3 (lucifer) archaic a match.
– origin OE, from L., ‘light-bringing, morning star’, from lux, luc- ‘light’ + -fer ‘bearing’.
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