luxuria

See also: luxúria

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lū̆xus (“excess”).

Pronunciation

Noun

lū̆xuria f (genitive lū̆xuriae); first declension

  1. luxury
  2. extravagance
  3. lust

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lū̆xuria lū̆xuriae
Genitive lū̆xuriae lū̆xuriārum
Dative lū̆xuriae lū̆xuriīs
Accusative lū̆xuriam lū̆xuriās
Ablative lū̆xuriā lū̆xuriīs
Vocative lū̆xuria lū̆xuriae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: luxury
  • → French: luxure
  • Friulian: lussurie
  • → Italian: lussuria
  • → Piedmontese: lussuria
  • → Portuguese: luxúria
  • → Romanian: luxurie
  • → Spanish: lujuria

References

  • “luxuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “luxuria”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • luxuria in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • luxuria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to plunge into excesses, a career of excess: in luxuriam effundi
    • (ambiguous) to be abandoned to a life of excess: luxuria diffluere (Off. 1. 30. 106)
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