adverb
illūc
illūc (not comparable)
Classical[ɪlˈluːk]Ecclesiastical[ilˈluk]
№ 955 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparablethither, to that place, to there
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
in illum locumillūc — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 1
to there
illūc — in Seneca, ch. VIII
illuc,
I. neutr. pron., v. 1. illic.
illuc, adv., v. 1. illic, II. B.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
illūc adv.
illic, to that place, thither: huc vel illuc inpelli, T.: huc illuc agitare, S.: huc atque illuc intuens: huc et illuc cursitant, H.: illuc ex his vinculis, i. e. into the other world: illuc Ire, ubi, etc., Iu.—To that end, to that point, thereto: illuc redi, quo coepisti, T.: animum nunc huc, nunc dividit illuc, V.: illuc, unde abii, redeo.—To that point, to such a pitch: illuc usque fidus, Ta.: illuc Decidit ut malum ferro summitteret, Iu.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *e/olloike (locative), from ille + -ce and thus a parallel formation to illōc (“thither, to there”), the latter from the instrumental. Compare hūc and hōc. See also illinc.
Ibero-Romance
- Leoneseallú