trans-lūcĕo or trālūcĕo, ēre, v. n.
- * I. To shine across: speculo in speculum translucet imago, Lucr. 4, 332.
- II. To shine through, show through; to let shine through, to be transparent or translucent: ille … In liquidis translucet aquis, Ov. M. 4, 354: selenitis ex candido translucet melleo fulgore, Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 181: per raritatem (pontium) translucentibus fluviis, id. 8, 43, 68, § 169: translucens fissura, id. 17, 14, 24, § 104; Col. 4, 29, 9.