luxu

luxu is a Latin form of luxus, meaning “luxury, excess, extravagance”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 77 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 3.135: Hoc faciunt, nimio ne luxu obtunsior usus

Curtius Rufus, Historiarum Alexandri Magni 10.3.9: Luxu omni fluere credideram et nimia felicitate mergi in voluptates: at, hercules, munia militiae hoc animorum corporumque robore aeque inpigre toleratis et, cum fortes viri sitis, non fortitudinem magis quam fidem colitis.

All forms of luxus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.