ANTELUCAN

PRONUNCIATION: (an-tuh-LOO-kuhn)

MEANING: adjective: Before dawn.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ante- (before) + lux (light). Earliest documented use: 1609.
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INTEL-U-CAN ! - motivational slogan for a chip-maker

TANTE LUCAN - my mother's sister from Berlin

ANTE-LUCAS - that would be Hollywood before 1977 and the release of Star Wars (His American Graffiti had come out in 1973, but that doesn't count)