Meaning

1 senses
  1. A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a hedonist.

    Schlemmer

    сибари́тsibarít

    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
person devoted to luxury and pleasure:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
person devoted to luxury and pleasure:

Origin

The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonym

The noun is a learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīta + English -ite (suffix forming demonyms). Sybarīta is derived from Ancient Greek Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Sŭbărī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”), from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Sŭ́bărĭs, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)). Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.

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Forms

plural: sybarites
Singularsybarite
Pluralsybarites

regular

Synonyms

14 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms
hedonophobe

Word family

2 related words
Relatedsybaritic
Derivedsybaritism

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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