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Dictionary of Medieval Names
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Luke m. Latin Lucas from Greek Λουκᾶς 'man from Lucania'.

The name of one of the four evangelists. Vulgate: Lucas. Wycliffite Bible (1395): Luk.

Brabant
Latin
● 1312 Luce (gen) JeanIII p. 12
England
Latin
● 1300 Lucas (nom) ProcSuf-vol3 p. 247
English
● 1576 Luke BUmar-vol1 p. 26; 1582 Lucas DEmar-vol2 p. 7; 1588 Luke ibid. p. 15; 1594 Lucas ibid. p. 29, Luke ibid. p. 28; 1595 Luke ibid. p. 30
France
Latin
● 1180 Luca (abl) RotScaNor p. 3; 1260 Luce (dat) ArrestReg-volI XVII, Ascension, Lucham (acc) ibid. IX, St. Martin, Luchas (nom) ibid. XVII, Ascension; 1378 Luce (dat) hanquetvol1 1003
Old French
● 1296 Lucas paris1296 p. 16; 1313 Lucas Paris1313 p. 2
Middle French
● 1392 Lucas MemBret-II col. 602; 1418 Lucas HGParis p. 385, Luquin ibid. p. 372; 1421 Lucas favier 67; 1438 Lucas ibid. 458
◑ 1423 Luquin favier 482; 1438 Luquin ibid.
Germany
Early New High German
● 1497 Lucas Nurn1497 570
Italy
Latin
● 1348 Luce (gen) INP 24; 1522x1532 Lucas (nom) DSF p. 56, 9; 1527 Lucas (nom) Rome1527 p. 83
Spain
Catalan
● 1510 Luch valencia1510 1523
Cite as: J. Uckelman, S.L. Uckelman. "Luke". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2015, no. 2. http://dmnes.org/2015/2/name/Luke.