extravagance
Extravagance ( French extravagance ) is a substantiated loan word of the adjective extravagant for "in a fancy and or in an exaggerated, exaggerated way consciously deviating and therefore striking".
The adjective flamboyant 'exceptional, extraordinary, spanning' was borrowed from the French in the 18th century and dates back to the Middle Latin extravagans back ( Latin Extra 'outside' and Vagari 'wander, his erratic'. See also Tramp ) and stood for "Dissolute". In the plural, the papal ordinances existing outside of the already codified canon law were referred to as extravagant . The verb extravagate also stood for 'to digress, to dissipate; Acting inconsistent, acting silly '.
Web links
Wiktionary: extravagance - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ extravagant on duden.de, accessed on July 24, 2011
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Pfeifer: Etymological Dictionary of German , dtv, 1995, ISBN 3-05-000626-9 , p. 313, online
- ↑ Friedrich Schmitthenner : Short German Dictionary for Etymology: Synonymics and Orthography. Friedrich Metz, Darmstadt 1834, p. 77.
- ↑ Extravaganz , Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 6. Leipzig 1906, p. 231, online at zeno.org