different between sybarite vs spartan

English

Etymology

From Latin Sybar?ta, from Ancient Greek ????????? (Subarít?s, “inhabitant of Subaris”), from ??????? (Súbaris), an ancient Greek city in southeastern Italy noted for the luxurious, pleasure-seeking habits of many of its inhabitants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?b???a?t/

Noun

sybarite (plural sybarites)

1. A person devoted to pleasure and luxury.

   Synonyms: voluptuary, see also Thesaurus:sensualist

   Antonym: hedonophobe

   • 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The Consolation of Philosophy, Penguin Books, book III, chapter iv, page 87:

Translations

Anagrams

• bestiary

French

Etymology

From Latin Sybarita

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ba.?it/

Adjective

sybarite (plural sybarites)

1. related to Sybaris
2. soft, effeminate, living in pleasure and luxury

   Ces docteurs frivoles, ces philosophes sybarites qui repoussent toute pensée sérieuse. (Jouy, Hermite, t. 2, 1812)

Synonyms

• (soft, effeminate, living in pleasure): délicat, jouisseur, sensuel, voluptueux

Derived terms

• sybaritisme

Related terms

• sybaritique

Noun

sybarite m (plural sybarites)

1. sybarite, person devoted to pleasure and luxury

   Je compris ce qui chagrinait le marquis dans son bonheur, et je découvris quel était le pli de rose dont soupirait ce sybarite sur sa couche de volupté. (Théophile Gautier, Fracasse, 1863)

Synonyms

• jouisseur

Antonyms

• ascète

References

• “sybarite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “sybarite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

By analogy with the ancient Spartans, who famously possessed these qualities.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp??(?)t?n/

Adjective

spartan (comparative more spartan, superlative most spartan)

1. Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
2. Resolute in the face of danger or adversity.

3. Lacking in decoration and luxury.

Translations

Anagrams

• partans, tarpans, trapans

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

spartan m (definite singular spartanen, indefinite plural spartanar, definite plural spartanane)

1. form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by spartanar

Swedish

Noun

spartan c

Etymology

From Latin spartanus, equivalent to Sparta +? -an

1. Spartan, inhabitant of the ancient Greek town of Sparta

Declension