Luz
[luːz]Meaning
Spanish for "light"; from a title of the Virgin Mary
Background Story
Luz means "light" in Spanish, taken from the title of the Virgin Mary, Nuestra Señora de la Luz, "Our Lady of Light". It is a Portuguese and Spanish feminine given name and surname, the given name shortened from Nossa Senhora da Luz, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as "Our Lady of Light". It is recorded too in Armenian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek and Hungarian, and is related to the root lux, with Lucio as its masculine form.
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