There are apparently stories that the word “luck” was derived from “Lucifer.” Randomhouse dispels that by explaining that the two words come from different origins. “The word luck was borrowed from Middle Dutch or Low German…It seems to have been first popularized as a gambling term.” Lucifer is Old English derived from Latin “lux” or light and ferre “to bear; carry.” The use of Lucifer as an epithet for Satan comes a passage in Isaiah 14:12, which refers to a king of Babylon who was compared to the morning star. The passage has been interpreted to refer to the fall of the archangel hurled from heaven because of wickedness.