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English
Noun
luxuries
- plural of luxury
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From lū̆xus (“excess”) + -iēs. Ernout and Meillet suggests that the -ur- suffix (found here before -iēs) can be identified with the "desiderative" suffix -turiō, as seen in ēsuriēs (“hunger”).[1] De Vaan proposes an intermediate adjective *luxuros without elaborating further on its etymology.[2]
Noun
lū̆xuriēs f (genitive lū̆xuriēī); fifth declension
- luxury
- extravagance
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Etymology 2
Verb
lū̆xuriēs
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of lū̆xuriō
References
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “luxus, luxūs”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 374
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “luxus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
Further reading
- “luxuries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers