luxus

From Latin luxus (“abundant”)

• IPA^(key): [ˈluksus]

luxus m inan

1. luxury

   Synonym: přepych

• luxus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• luxus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• luxus in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Latin luxus.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈluksuʃ]
• Hyphenation: lu‧xus
• Rhymes: -uʃ

luxus (usually uncountable, plural luxusok)

1. luxury (very wealthy and comfortable surroundings)

   Synonyms: fényűzés, pompa

2. (often as a prefix in compounds) luxury, exclusive (something desirable but expensive that one cannot afford to buy)

• luxus in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈluːk.sus/, [ˈɫ̪uːks̠ʊs̠] or IPA^(key): /ˈluk.sus/, [ˈɫ̪ʊks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈluk.sus/, [ˈluksus]
• De Vaan reconstructs the stem vowel as short, despite noting that this would be difficult to explain as the word meets the conditions for Lachmann's law to apply. In contrast, Bennett marks it long, appealing to Romance descendants,[1] although Bennett also gives luxus as an example of a word where it is difficult to decide whether the forms encountered in Romance are popular or learned.[2]

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”) (whence also luctor (“wrestle”)). De Vaan reconstructs Proto-Indo-European *lug-so-s and Proto-Italic *luksos and assumes an absence of Lachmann's lengthening.[3] Cognate with Sanskrit रुग्ण (rugṇá, “bent, broken”), Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos, “twig, withe”) and λοξός (loxós, “slanting, crosswise”), Lithuanian lugnas, Old Norse lykna.

lū̆xus (feminine lū̆xa, neuter lū̆xum); first/second-declension adjective

1. dislocated

First/second-declension adjective.

• lū̆xō

Abstract u-stem noun (see -tus) formed on the same stem as the adjective luxus, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“bend, twist”).

lū̆xus m (genitive lū̆xūs); fourth declension

1. a dislocation
2. extravagance, luxury, excess, debauchery
3. pomp, splendor

Fourth-declension noun.

• lū̆xor
• lū̆xuria/ lū̆xuriēs

• “luxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “luxus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• luxus 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)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to pass one's life in luxury and idleness: per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agere