luxuriant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lūxuriāns, past participle of lūxuriō, itself from lūxuria (“luxury, excess”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lʌɡˈzjʊəɹi.ənt/, /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹi.ənt/, /ləɡ-/, /-ɔːɹi.ənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləɡˈʒʊɹi.ənt/, /ləkˈʃʊɹi.ənt/, /-ɝi.ənt/

Adjective

luxuriant (comparative more luxuriant, superlative most luxuriant)

1. Abundant in growth or detail.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 309–310:

     She wore a dress of azure blue velvet, with a deep border of gold; her luxuriant hair was put back from her brow in a style which no face but the most perfect could have borne, and was then gathered in a form like that of an ancient helmet, every plait glittering with diamonds: it was peculiar, but it suited her.

   • 1966, E. Yale Dawson, Seashore Plants of Southern Califonria, 3rd printing, Berkley: University of California Press, published 1975, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 7:

     Thus, to find luxuriant growths of seaweeds unaffected by man, one must go to the Channel Islands where pollution has not taken its toll.

Derived terms

• luxuriance
• luxuriant flower
• luxuriantly
• luxuriantness
• overluxuriant
• unluxuriant

 

Related terms

• luxury
• luxurious

Translations

abundant in growth or detail

Armenian: փարթամ (hy) (pʻartʻam) Bulgarian: пищен (bg) (pišten), изобилен (bg) (izobilen) Chinese: Literary Chinese: 鬱勃 (yùbó) Mandarin: 豐富／丰富 (zh) (fēngfù), 鬱／郁 (zh) (yù), 蔚 (zh) (wèi), 茂 (zh) (mào), 繁茂 (zh) (fánmào), 莽莽 (zh) (mǎngmǎng) Dutch: weelderig (nl), welig (nl), luxueus (nl) Finnish: rehevä (fi) (in growth) French: luxuriant (fr) Galician: vizoso German: üppig (de), geil (de) (archaic) Greek: άφθονο (el) (áfthono) Ido: abundanta (io) Irish: rábach, uaibhreach, fásmhar, tiubh, borrchas, sómasach Italian: lussureggiante (it), rigoglioso (it) Japanese: 繁茂した (ja) (はんもした, hanmo shita) Maori: huawai Russian: пы́шный (ru) (pýšnyj), бу́йный (ru) (bújnyj), густо́й (ru) (gustój) (thick) Scots: roch Spanish: lujuriante

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyk.sy.ʁjɑ̃/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Homophone: luxuriants

Adjective

luxuriant (feminine luxuriante, masculine plural luxuriants, feminine plural luxuriantes)

1. luxuriant

Further reading

• “luxuriant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

lū̆xuriant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of lū̆xuriō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French luxuriant, from Latin luxurians.

Adjective

luxuriant m or n (feminine singular luxuriantă, masculine plural luxurianți, feminine and neuter plural luxuriante)

1. lush

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	luxuriant		luxuriantă		luxurianți	luxuriante
	definite	luxuriantul		luxurianta		luxurianții	luxuriantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	luxuriant		luxuriante		luxurianți	luxuriante
	definite	luxuriantului		luxuriantei		luxurianților	luxuriantelor