luxuries

See also: luxúries

English

Noun

luxuries

  1. plural of luxury

Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From lū̆xus (excess) +‎ -iēs. Ernout and Meillet suggests that the -ur- suffix (found here before -iēs) 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]

Noun

lū̆xuriēs f (genitive lū̆xuriēī); fifth declension

  1. luxury
  2. extravagance
Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative lū̆xuriēs lū̆xuriēs
genitive lū̆xuriēī lū̆xuriērum
dative lū̆xuriēī lū̆xuriēbus
accusative lū̆xuriem lū̆xuriēs
ablative lū̆xuriē lū̆xuriēbus
vocative lū̆xuriēs lū̆xuriēs

Etymology 2

Verb

lū̆xuriēs

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of lū̆xuriō

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

  • luxuries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers