English
sumptuosity
Sumptuosity comes from Latin sumptuositas.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsumptuositas
- Englishearliest quotation 1614sumptuosity
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsumptuositas
- Englishearliest quotation 1614sumptuosity
Earliest quotation: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh]: “Macedon may justly be called to witness, who found…”
Formed from sumptuous + -ity
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- ‘to take’
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Latin sumō ‘to take’
Latin sūmptus ‘cost, charge, expense’
Latin sumptuōsus ‘very expensive or costly’
Middle French sumptueux
English sumptuous
Every English word from Latin sumptuositas
Today it means
noun The state or quality of being sumptuous; wealth; high price
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin sumptuositas / sumptuosity