DOUG'S WORD OF THE WEEK

sybaritic / sib-uh-rit-ik / adjective: 1. Devoted to or marked by pleasure and luxury. 2 Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Sybaris or its inhabitants.

Notes & Etymology: From the Latin Sybariticus which is taken from Sybaris a celebrated city of Magna Graecia on the western shore of the Gulf of Taranto. The wealth of the city in the 6th century B.C. was such that the Sybarites became synonymous with pleasure and luxury.

Usage: “With Homer Simpson out of the way, we celebrities can go back to our lives of sybaritic excess."
J. Stewart Burns; The Simpsons “Homerazzi”; 2007