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luca
/ˈlukə/
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What does luca mean?
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of LUCA.
- Initialism of last universal common ancestor; the hypothesised most recent primordial organism that is an ancestor to all organisms now living.
proper noun
- A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.
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proper noun
- A female given name.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlukə/
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Please, Mr. President, I want some gray stucco cottages, with Luca della Robbia figures baked into the front.
The reviver or re-discoverer of the art of enamelling in Italy was Luca della Robbia, a Florentine sculptor.
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Being invited by Taddeo Bernardi, a very rich and splendid citizen of Luca, to supper, he went to the house and was shown by Taddeo into a chamber hung with silk and paved with fine stones representing flowers and foliage of the most beautiful colouring.
There is written on the Turrets of the city of Luca in great characters at this day, the word LIBERTAS; yet no man can thence inferre, that a particular man has more Libertie, or Immunitie from the service of the Commonwealth there, than in Constantinople.
Insomuch, that when he passed back again over the Alps, and took up his winter quarters in the city of Luca, there flocked to him an infinite number of men and women, striving who should get first to him, two hundred senators included, among whom were Pompey and Crassus; so that there were to be seen at once before Caesar's door no less than six score rods of proconsuls and praetors.