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Latin
Etymology
From sūmptus, sūmptu- (“cost, charge, expense”) + -ōsus (“-ful, -ly, -ous”), from sūmō (“I take”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sūmptuōsus (feminine sūmptuōsa, neuter sūmptuōsum, comparative sūmptuōsior); first/second-declension adjective
- Very expensive or costly
- sumptuous
- lavish, wasteful, extravagant
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “sumptuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sumptuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sumptuosus 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)
- sumptuosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.