luxus

• IPA^(key): [ˈluksus]

luxus m

1. luxury

   Synonym: přepych

• luxusní

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

From Latin luxus.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈluksuʃ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧xus
• Rhymes: -uʃ

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)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluːk.sus/, [ˈɫ̪uːks̠ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈluk.sus/, [ˈluksus]

From Proto-Italic *louksos, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg-so-s, from *lewg- (“bend, twist”) (whence also luctor (“wrestle”)). Cognate with Sanskrit रुग्ण (rugṇá, “bent, broken”), Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos, “twig, withe”) and λοξός (loxós, “slanting, crosswise”), Lithuanian lugnas, Old Norse lykna.

lūxus (feminine lūxa, neuter lūxum); first/second-declension adjective

1. dislocated

First/second-declension adjective.

• lūxō

From Proto-Italic *louksus, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”).

lūxus m (genitive lūxūs); fourth declension

1. a dislocation

Fourth-declension noun.

From Proto-Italic *louksus, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”).

lūxus m (genitive lūxūs); fourth declension

1. extravagance, luxury, excess, debauchery
2. pomp, splendor

Fourth-declension noun.

• lūxor
• lūxuria/ lūxuriēs

• “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