sumptuosus

Latin

Etymology

From sūmptus, sūmptu- (“cost, charge, expense”) +‎ -ōsus (“-ful, -ly, -ous”), from sūmō (“I take”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sūmptuōsus (feminine sūmptuōsa, neuter sūmptuōsum, comparative sūmptuōsior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Very expensive or costly
  2. sumptuous
  3. lavish, wasteful, extravagant

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative sūmptuōsus sūmptuōsa sūmptuōsum sūmptuōsī sūmptuōsae sūmptuōsa
genitive sūmptuōsī sūmptuōsae sūmptuōsī sūmptuōsōrum sūmptuōsārum sūmptuōsōrum
dative sūmptuōsō sūmptuōsae sūmptuōsō sūmptuōsīs
accusative sūmptuōsum sūmptuōsam sūmptuōsum sūmptuōsōs sūmptuōsās sūmptuōsa
ablative sūmptuōsō sūmptuōsā sūmptuōsō sūmptuōsīs
vocative sūmptuōse sūmptuōsa sūmptuōsum sūmptuōsī sūmptuōsae sūmptuōsa

Descendants

  • English: sumptuous
  • French: somptueux
  • Italian: sontuoso
  • Portuguese: suntuoso
  • Romanian: somptuos
  • Spanish: suntuoso

References

  • “sumptuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sumptuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "sumptuosus", 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)
  • sumptuosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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