Meaning of Luca | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of last universal common ancestor; the hypothesised most recent primordial organism that is an ancestor to all organisms now living.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.
3. Alternative letter-case form of LUCA.
   alt-of
4. A female given name.

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Examples

“This is my bedroom, and Luca’s, and Fran’s, and my mother’s. The four of us sleep⟳ here, and at the back of the house live⟳ Celesta and Rose, my other two sisters who I don’t really know⟳. […] We are Celesta, Rosaria, Francesca, Luca, Dolores.”

“Miss⟳ Lori, my girlfriend is on the phone. Her name⟳ is Luca.”

““No, it wasn’t a dream⟳, Luke….You have⟳ a daughter. […] I just assumed she was Ryan’s. I got married days after you came to Chicago….days after you and me… I’m sorry….” / “What’s her name⟳, Drea?” […] “Luca….your daughter’s name⟳ is Luca.” / “No, no… her name⟳ is Luca Landon.” […] Luca Landon would always connect⟳ Mattdrea Cyrus to Luke Landon.”

“Who is the playwright of the Diamond Theater responsible for these stirring stories? Her name⟳ is Luca Syara, but beyond that, she’s an enigma.”

“I don’t know⟳ if you ever met my stepmother, Luca. […] When Luca’s husband died protecting my dad, he’d felt obligated to show⟳ his loyalty and gratitude by marrying her, adopting her sons, treating them as his own⟳.”

“What’s more, every living organism is ultimately descended from a single ancestral population: the Last⟳ Universal Common Ancestor (Luca), which lived over 3.5 billion years ago when the planet was newly formed.”

“Luca is now usually placed deep underground, in a fissure in hot igneous rocks, where she fed on sulphur, iron⟳, hydrogen and carbon.”

“It was around 2.9 billion years ago that LUCA split⟳ into the three domains of life: the single-celled bacteria and archaea, and the more complex eukaryotes that gave rise⟳ to animals and plants[…].”

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