luxus

See also: Luxus and lúxus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈluksus]

Noun

luxus m

1. luxury

   Synonym: přepych

Derived terms

• luxusní

Further reading

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

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin luxus.

Pronunciation

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

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

• luxushajó
• luxusszálló

 

Further reading

• 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

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Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

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

1. dislocated

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lūxus	lūxa	lūxum		lūxī	lūxae	lūxa
Genitive	lūxī	lūxae	lūxī		lūxōrum	lūxārum	lūxōrum
Dative	lūxō		lūxō		lūxīs
Accusative	lūxum	lūxam	lūxum		lūxōs	lūxās	lūxa
Ablative	lūxō	lūxā	lūxō		lūxīs
Vocative	lūxe	lūxa	lūxum		lūxī	lūxae	lūxa

Derived terms

• lūxō

Etymology 2

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

Noun

lūxus m (genitive lūxūs); fourth declension

1. a dislocation

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lūxus	lūxūs
Genitive	lūxūs	lūxuum
Dative	lūxuī	lūxibus
Accusative	lūxum	lūxūs
Ablative	lūxū	lūxibus
Vocative	lūxus	lūxūs

Etymology 3

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

Noun

lūxus m (genitive lūxūs); fourth declension

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

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lūxus	lūxūs
Genitive	lūxūs	lūxuum
Dative	lūxuī	lūxibus
Accusative	lūxum	lūxūs
Ablative	lūxū	lūxibus
Vocative	lūxus	lūxūs

Derived terms

• lūxor
• lūxuria/ lūxuriēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: luxe
• Italian: lusso
• Piedmontese: lusso
• Old Portuguese: luxo
  • Galician: luxo
  • Portuguese: luxo
• Romanian: lux
• Sardinian: luscu
• Sicilian: lussu
• Old Spanish: luxo
  • Spanish: lujo
    • → Tagalog: luho
• → Alemannic German: Luxus
• → Czech: luxus
• → Danish: luksus
• → Finnish: luksus
• → French: luxe
  • → Dutch: luxe
  • → English: luxe
  • → Persian: لوکس‎ (luks)
    • → Azerbaijani: lüks
  • → Swedish: lyx
  • → Turkish: lüks
• → German: Luxus
• → Hungarian: luxus
• → Icelandic: lúxus
• → Luxembourgish: Luxus
• → Macedonian: луксуз (luksuz)
• → Norwegian: luksus
• → Polish: luksus
• → Russian: люкс (ljuks)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: луксуз, луксус

  Latin: luksuz, luksus

References

• 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to pass one's life in luxury and idleness: per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere