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luxum

luxum is a Latin form of luxus, meaning “luxury, excess, extravagance”. It is the genitive plural masculine adjective or nominative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 34 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 2: … ue habet cuncta neque ipse habetur. Quo magis pravitas eorum admiranda est, qui, dediti corporis gaudiis, per luxum et ignaviam aetatem agunt, ceterum ingenium, quo neque melius neque amplius aliud in natura mortalium est, in …

Cato the Elder, De agricultura 1·60: … e deicias, et suave est. Intertrigini remedium. in viam cum ibis, apsinthi Pontici surculum sub anulo habeto. Luxum siquod est, hac cantione sanum fiet. harundinem prende tibi viridem P. IIII aut quinque longam, mediam diffin …

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.