Luxury

[Radley]

Just curious...
Does anybody know if the word 'luxury' has anything to do with Luxor and the Valley of the Kings in Egypt?

[Смайлик]

Merriam-Webster's dicitonary traces it back to the Latin "luxuria" and "luxus" which means about the same thing: luxury, excess.

[Radley]

Yeah, fine, but maybe the Latin expression can be traced back to some Egypt-related origins?
It just sounds so remarkably similar...

[Jumis]

Of course, 'ex Oriente lux' But you are actually the first person who concerns about Luxor area, that I know of.

To be more pragmatic, any kind of 'luxury' would have some nearest semantics the same as 'луч' etc.

[Vlad]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Uqsur