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Latin
Etymology
From lū̆xus (“excess”).
Pronunciation
Noun
lū̆xuria f (genitive lū̆xuriae); first declension
- luxury
- extravagance
- lust
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
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)