luxuria

See also: luxúria

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From lūxus (“excess”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /luːkˈsu.ri.a/, [ɫ̪uːkˈs̠ʊriä]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /lukˈsu.ri.a/, [lukˈsuːriä]

Noun

lūxuria f (genitive lūxuriae); first declension

  1. luxury
  2. extravagance

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lūxuria lūxuriae
Genitive lūxuriae lūxuriārum
Dative lūxuriae lūxuriīs
Accusative lūxuriam lūxuriās
Ablative lūxuriā lūxuriīs
Vocative lūxuria lūxuriae

Derived terms

Descendants
  • English: luxury
  • French: luxure
    • Old French: luisoire, luissoire
  • Friulian: lussurie
  • Italian: lussuria
  • Piedmontese: lussuria
  • Portuguese: luxúria
  • 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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