luxuria

See also: luxúria

Latin

Alternative forms

• lū̆xuriēs

Etymology

From lū̆xus (“excess”) +‎ -ia. Ernout and Meillet suggests that the -ur- suffix (found here before -ia) can be identified with the "desiderative" suffix -turiō, as seen in ēsuriēs (“hunger”).^[1] De Vaan proposes an intermediate adjective *luxuros without elaborating further on its etymology.^[2]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lū̆xuria f (genitive lū̆xuriae); first declension

1. luxury
2. extravagance
3. lust

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lū̆xuria	lū̆xuriae
genitive	lū̆xuriae	lū̆xuriārum
dative	lū̆xuriae	lū̆xuriīs
accusative	lū̆xuriam	lū̆xuriās
ablative	lū̆xuriā	lū̆xuriīs
vocative	lū̆xuria	lū̆xuriae

Derived terms

• lū̆xuriō/ lū̆xurior
• lū̆xuriōsus

Descendants

• → English: luxury
• → French: luxure
  • Old French: luisoire, luissoire
• Friulian: lussurie
• → Italian: lussuria
• → Piedmontese: lussuria
• → Portuguese: luxúria
• → Romanian: luxurie
• → Spanish: lujuria

References

1. Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “luxus, luxūs”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 374
2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “luxus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356

Further reading

• “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)