sumptuous

English

WOTD – 14 May 2012

Etymology

From French somptueux, from Latin sumptuōsus, from sūmptus (“cost, charge, expense”), from sumō (“I take”) +‎ -tus (noun formation suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmpt͡ʃuəs/

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Adjective

sumptuous (comparative more sumptuous, superlative most sumptuous)

1. Magnificent, luxurious, splendid.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:

     Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
     He sees his little lot the lot of all;
     Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
     To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
     No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal
     To make him loathe his vegetable meal;

   • 1829, Washington Irving, The Alhambra‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 September 2015:

     I wandered on until I came to a sumptuous palace with a garden adorned with fountains and fishponds, and groves and flowers, and orchards laden with delicious fruit.

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     It was a sumptuous nature, perhaps, that could not be brought to regard money; a natural generosity and kindness; and possibly a petty vanity that was pleased with praise, even with the praise of waiters and cabmen.

   • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     Cabaye pulled all the strings in a dominant home performance and capped a majestic individual display with a sumptuous first-time finish into the far corner for his second goal of the afternoon.

Synonyms

• lavish

Derived terms

• sumption
• sumptuary
• sumptuousness

Translations

magnificent, luxurious, splendid

• Bulgarian: разкошен (bg) (razkošen), пищен (bg) (pišten), луксозен (bg) (luksozen)
• Catalan: sumptuós
• Esperanto: luksa
• Finnish: upea (fi) (splendid), ylellinen (fi) (lavish), mahtava (fi)
• French: somptueux (fr)
• German: prächtig (de), prunkvoll (de), prachtvoll (de), reichhaltig (de), üppig (de), schwelgerisch, kostspielig (de), aufwändig (de)
• Greek: πολυτελής (el) m (polytelís)

  Ancient: πολῠτελής (polutelḗs)

• Irish: costasach, costasúil
• Japanese: 贅沢な (ぜいたく-な, zeitaku-na)
• Latin: opiparus, dapsilis
• Macedonian: ра́скошен (ráskošen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overdådig (no), praktfull, storslagen (no), kostelig

• Portuguese: suntuoso (pt)
• Punjabi: ^{(please verify)} ਕੀਮਤੀ (pa) (keemtee), ^{(please verify)} ਸ਼ਾਹ ਖਰਚੀ ਵਾਲਾ (śāh kharcī vālā)
• Romanian: somptuos (ro) m
• Russian: роско́шный (ru) (roskóšnyj), пы́шный (ru) (pýšnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: sòghail
• Serbo-Croatian: skupocjeno, raskošno (sh)
• Spanish: suntuoso (es)
• Swedish: överdådig (sv), luxuös (sv), storslagen (sv), praktfull (sv)
• Ukrainian: розкішний m (rozkišnyj), пишний m (pyšnyj)