lucent

Etymology

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

adj

1. Emitting light; shining, luminous.
   Sherif Nasir led us: his lucent goodness, which provoked answering devotion even from the depraved, made him the only leader (and a benediction) for forlorn hopes. 1926, T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 228
2. Translucent; clear, lucid.
   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. 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, pages 9–10