luxuria

See also: luxúria

Latin

Alternative forms

• luxuriēs

Etymology

From luxus (“excess”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /luːkˈsu.ri.a/, [ɫ̪uːkˈs̠ʊriä]
• (modern Italianate 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

• luxuriō/ luxurior
• luxuriosus

Descendants

• English: luxury
• French: luxure
• Old French: luisoire, luissoire
• Italian: 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^[1], 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)