Lucy

Meaning

Name

1. A female given name from Latin.
2. A surname from Old French derived from place names in Normandy based on a male personal name, from Latin Lucius.
3. The fossilized partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia, an early hominin; also, the individual whose skeleton this was.
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Noun

The drug LSD.

Synonyms

Lucile

Lucetta

Translations

Lucie

Lucia

Lucía

Lúcia

Lucy

Lucy

Luzia

Lucia

Lucy

Lucille

Lucinde

Lucienne

Luce

Λουκία

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈluːsi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: Lucy

In summary

From Middle English Lucy, from Old French Lucie (notably after the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracuse), from Latin Lucia (feminine of Lucius, a Roman praenomen), from lux (“light”).
The name of the Australopithecus skeleton came from the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, which was being played repeatedly at the dig site camp at the time of the discovery. The slang term for LSD also derives from the song name, which many believe is essentially a reference to the drug.