luxus

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See also: Luxus and lúxus

Czech

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Etymology

From Latin luxus (abundant)

Pronunciation

Noun

luxus m inan

  1. luxury
    Synonym: přepych

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • luxus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • luxus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • luxus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin luxus.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

luxus (usually uncountable, plural luxusok)

  1. luxury (very wealthy and comfortable surroundings)
    Synonyms: fényűzés, pompa
  2. (often as a prefix in compounds) luxury, exclusive (something desirable but expensive that one cannot afford to buy)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative luxus luxusok
accusative luxust luxusokat
dative luxusnak luxusoknak
instrumental luxussal luxusokkal
causal-final luxusért luxusokért
translative luxussá luxusokká
terminative luxusig luxusokig
essive-formal luxusként luxusokként
essive-modal
inessive luxusban luxusokban
superessive luxuson luxusokon
adessive luxusnál luxusoknál
illative luxusba luxusokba
sublative luxusra luxusokra
allative luxushoz luxusokhoz
elative luxusból luxusokból
delative luxusról luxusokról
ablative luxustól luxusoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
luxusé luxusoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
luxuséi luxusokéi
Possessive forms of luxus
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. luxusom luxusaim
2nd person sing. luxusod luxusaid
3rd person sing. luxusa luxusai
1st person plural luxusunk luxusaink
2nd person plural luxusotok luxusaitok
3rd person plural luxusuk luxusaik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • luxus in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈluːk.sus/, or IPA(key): /ˈluk.sus/,
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈluk.sus/,
  • De Vaan reconstructs the stem vowel as short, despite noting that this would be difficult to explain as the word meets the conditions for Lachmann's law to apply. In contrast, Bennett marks it long, appealing to Romance descendants,[1] although Bennett also gives luxus as an example of a word where it is difficult to decide whether the forms encountered in Romance are popular or learned.[2]

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (bend, twist) (whence also luctor (wrestle)). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *lug-so-s and Proto-Italic *luksos and assumes an absence of Lachmann's lengthening.[3] Cognate with Sanskrit रुग्ण (rugṇá, bent, broken), Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos, twig, withe) and λοξός (loxós, slanting, crosswise), Lithuanian lugnas, Old Norse lykna.

Adjective

lū̆xus (feminine lū̆xa, neuter lū̆xum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. dislocated
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative lū̆xus lū̆xa lū̆xum lū̆xī lū̆xae lū̆xa
Genitive lū̆xī lū̆xae lū̆xī lū̆xōrum lū̆xārum lū̆xōrum
Dative lū̆xō lū̆xō lū̆xīs
Accusative lū̆xum lū̆xam lū̆xum lū̆xōs lū̆xās lū̆xa
Ablative lū̆xō lū̆xā lū̆xō lū̆xīs
Vocative lū̆xe lū̆xa lū̆xum lū̆xī lū̆xae lū̆xa
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Abstract u-stem noun (see -tus) formed on the same stem as the adjective luxus, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (bend, twist).

Noun

lū̆xus m (genitive lū̆xūs); fourth declension

  1. a dislocation
  2. extravagance, luxury, excess, debauchery
  3. pomp, splendor
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lū̆xus lū̆xūs
Genitive lū̆xūs lū̆xuum
Dative lū̆xuī lū̆xibus
Accusative lū̆xum lū̆xūs
Ablative lū̆xū lū̆xibus
Vocative lū̆xus lū̆xūs
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  1. ^ Bennett, Charles E. (1907) The Latin Language: a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, page 60
  2. ^ Bennett, Charles E. (1907) The Latin Language: a historical outline of its sounds, inflections, and syntax, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, page 39
  3. ^ 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

  • luxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • luxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • luxus 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)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to pass one's life in luxury and idleness: per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere