voluptuary

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*welh₁-“to choose; to want”
2. Latin · derived fromvoluptārius“pleasure-seeker; agreeable, delightful, pleasant; sensual”
3. Late Latin · borrowed fromvoluptuārius
4. French · borrowed fromvoluptuaire
5. English todayvoluptuary

From French voluptuaire, or directly from its etymon Late Latin voluptuārius, from Latin voluptārius (“pleasure-seeker; agreeable, delightful, pleasant; sensual”), from voluptās (“delight, pleasure, satisfaction”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Voluptās is derived from volup (“with pleasure; agreeably, pleasantly, satisfactorily”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns indicating a state of being).

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