FromProto-Italic*e/olloike(locative), fromille +‎-ce and thus a parallel formation toillōc(“thither, to there”), the latter from the instrumental. Comparehūc andhōc. See alsoillinc.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ɪlˈluːk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ilˈluk]

illūc (notcomparable)

1. thither, tothat place,tothere

• *eccum illūc

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Leonese:allú

From earlierilloc(ce), forillud +‎-ce, with vowel change extended either from the base form in which the reduction is regular, or fromproclisis.

• illucce,illoc

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [ɪlˈlʊk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [ilˈluk]
• Note: as withhoc, the final/k/ is doubled if a vowel follows, e.g.illuc est/ilˈluk.kest/. This emergent gemination is a remnant of its original form,illucce.^[1]

illuc

1. nominative/accusativeneutersingular ofillic
   • c. 190BCE – 185BCE,Plautus,Amphitryon270:

     Sed quidilluc est? Caelum aspectat. Observabo quam rem agat.

     But what isthat? He's gazing at the sky. I'm going to watch what he does.

• “illuc”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “illuc”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “illuc”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • hither and thither:huc (et) illuc
    

illuc

1. alternative form ofiluec

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