lusorio

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I looked up lusorio in my dictionary; nothing. In WORDS.EXE, it says:

=>lusorio

ori SUFFIX
-orium, -ory, -or; place where
lusori.o N 2 2 DAT S N
lusori.o N 2 2 ABL S N
lusus, lusus N M
play; game, sport; amusement; amorous sport;
ori SUFFIX
-orous, -ory; having to do with, pretaining to; tending to
lusori.o ADJ 1 1 DAT S M POS
lusori.o ADJ 1 1 DAT S N POS
lusori.o ADJ 1 1 ABL S M POS
lusori.o ADJ 1 1 ABL S N POS
ludo, ludere, lusi, lusus V
play, mock, tease, trick;

I’m none the wiser. What’s all this -orium, -ory, -or then? Can anyone explain what’s going on here?

2

Lusorius (‘belonging to a game’) is in my school dictionary, but not -ori :confused:
The noun lusus plus this strange suffix -ori, but I can’t really help you with this ori, sorry. It seems to me that -ori is a bit like when in English we add an -ish to the end of a noun. That’s the second one WORD came up with, the adjective, but now on to the first one…
I think the -orium, -ory, -or bit of this noun lusorius (‘place, where you can play’ ???) declination.
But I’m confused too…

3

I’ve never heard of lusorium, but the -ori- that Words is talking about is really -orium. I guess lusorium is to ludo as auditorium is to audio (add -orium to the supine stem). That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a word though :stuck_out_tongue:

4

Nevermind, I just found it in the Oxford. First two meaning are used mostly by Seneca and Pliny.

lusorius, -a, -um

  1. Used in games or for amusement.
  2. Used, uttered, etc., in mere sport, not serious, playful, frivolous.
  3. Ineffectual, futile.
5

Oh I think I get it now, the

-orium, -ory, -or; place where

and

-orous, -ory; having to do with, pretaining to; tending to

are English suffix equivalents. I thought they were the Latin ones, and I could not for the life of me work out how to decline a word that had endings in -orium, ory, -or.
Thank you for putting up with me.