different between luculent vs lucent

English

From Latin l?culentus, from l?x (“light”).

luculent (comparative more luculent, superlative most luculent)

(now rare) Shining, brilliant.
(obsolete) Of language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear.
- , I.iv.1:
  Cleombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves […].

Borrowed from lucent-, the participle stem of Latin lucere (“to shine”).

lucent (comparative more lucent, superlative most lucent)

Emitting light; shining, luminous.
Translucent; clear, lucid.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
  her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.

l?cent

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