sumptuary

Meaning of sumptuary

adjective

relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items.

early 17th century: from Latin sumptuarius, from sumptus ‘cost, expenditure’, from sumere ‘take’.

Information about sumptuary

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of sumptuary

sump-tu-ary

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • sumptuary is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of sumptuary

sputumary

Words that rhyme with sumptuary

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